U.S. tariffs wear the cloak of financial policy to address trade imbalances, but they mask deeper geopolitical ambitions. That strategy may backfire. The pressure of U.S. tariffs is firming up the multipolar world it is meant to prevent. Pressure from sanctions has...
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The Hawk’s 1945 Project
by Clark Patterson | Aug 6, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
Two weeks ago at The Free Press (TFP), Rebeccah L. Heinrichs of the Hudson Institute wrote a 3,000-word article critiquing conservative disapproval of President Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran last month. Heinrichs linked this conservative denunciation of Trump’s...
George Orwell’s Case Against the Atomic Bomb
by James Rushmore | Aug 6, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In October 1945, George Orwell wrote an article titled “You and the Atom Bomb” for the socialist publication Tribune. Orwell’s piece makes a compelling argument against the atomic bomb, noting the myriad ways in which it maximizes state power and enables a handful of...
The Constitution, Foreign Wars, and the Tenth Amendment
by Alan Mosley | Aug 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When a sitting U.S. president decides to commit tens of billions of dollars’ worth of weapons to foreign conflicts, ordinary citizens seldom ask whether such largesse has a constitutional basis. Yet America was founded on the principle that the federal government is...
Conflicts, Deals, and Humanitarian Crises Across the Board
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 1, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Across multiple conflict zones—from the mineral-rich hills of eastern Congo to the contested temple sites on the Thailand-Cambodia border—a familiar pattern emerges: foreign intervention complicates and often worsens already volatile situations. In recent years,...
Robert Taft Foresaw the Dangers of NATO
by James Rushmore | Jul 29, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
On July 26, 1949, Ohio Senator Robert Taft delivered a speech in which he explicated his reasons for voting against ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty. His remarks included the following: "If we undertake to arm all the nations around Russia from Norway on the...
Ukraine Abandoned
by Ted Snider | Jul 29, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The war with Russia is going very badly for Ukraine. At the beginning of July, the Russian armed forces took full control of the Luhansk region for the first time. And, though it is too early to tell if they will hold it, there are now unconfirmed reports that the...
I’ll Teach You to Bully Politicians
by Dan McKnight | Jul 28, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Two weeks ago, I was invited for another interview with Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton, who's still fresh off his extended, three hour appearance with Tucker Carlson. In the closing minutes of his presentation on America's Middle East wars, Scott gave the...