Washington DC's proxy war against Russia in Ukraine continues to grind up lives. Increasingly, the war looks like an indefinite hellscape, though there have been bright moments of hope. U.S. President Donald Trump has at times seemed sincerely committed to ending the...
Born on November 16, 1938 in Brooklyn, Robert Nozick began his intellectual life as a young socialist but ended it as one of the twentieth century’s fiercest defenders of property rights and limited government. Raised in a Jewish immigrant household, he joined Norman...
The White House approved a $330 million sale of parts for military aircraft to Taiwan. It is the first time President Donald Trump has signed off on a weapons sale to Taipei since returning to the Oval Office. “The State Department has made a determination approving...
Israel is pressuring the Trump administration to condition the sale of advanced American fighter jets to Saudi Arabia on Riyadh normalizing ties with Tel Aviv. "We told the Trump administration that the supply of F-35s to Saudi Arabia needs to be subject to Saudi...
The Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi explained that his country is not currently enriching uranium due to the US and Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities in June. He said Tehran remained open to talks with Washington if the US dropped...
Reading Common Sense and looking at modern parallels.
The most famous sentence in Adam Smith's 1776 treatise, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, appears in Book I, Chapter 2: It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their...
Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained that the Kremlin is still open to a negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine. A Russian diplomatic source said that a second summit between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump is necessary. ...
The Palestinians are suffering from escalating attacks by both the Israeli military and civilians in the West Bank. On Thursday, Israeli forces killed two Palestinian children near Hebron. According to Haaretz, Palestinian sources said they were attempting to throw...
According to the Gaza Media Ministry, Israel has continued regular attacks in Gaza since the ceasefire ended last month. The Israeli attacks killed at least 242 Palestinians. On Thursday, the Gaza media office slammed Israel for “blatant and systematic” violations of...
