"The word tariff, properly used, is a beautiful word. One of the most beautiful words I’ve ever heard. It’s music to my ears." —Donald Trump The once and possibly future president threatens to wage economic warfare against countries and companies everywhere if they...
Foreign Policy
Don’t Oversell China’s Economic Crisis
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Oct 3, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Recent headlines regarding China’s economy have painted a grim picture. From sagging stock markets to the continuing, multidimensional real-estate crises, there is no shortage of negative news coming out of the world’s second-largest economy. Yet while these...
What Did the Vice Presidential Debate Teach Us?
by Dan McKnight | Oct 3, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Tuesday night was the final debate before the November election, and it was the first time a significant number of Americans were formally introduced to the vice-presidential nominees, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Like me, Vance was a U.S....
Orwell’s War: When War is the Path to Peace
by Ted Snider | Oct 2, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The freshly elected President Barack Obama probably never imagined that he would be delivering his Nobel Peace Prize lecture by defending war. But there he was, in December 2009, doing just that. “I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the considerable controversy...
Twelve Secrets of the Deep State
by Keith Knight | Oct 1, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Libertarian Institute managing editor Keith Knight opened the Rage Against the War Machine rally on September 28, 2024 in Washington DC. You can read his full speech below. War is a euphemism for theft funded mass murder based on lies often involving slaves known as...
Joe Biden Is Responsible for Burning Lebanon
by Daniel Larison | Sep 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Joe Biden administration claims to be pushing for a “temporary ceasefire” between Israel and Hezbollah to avert a larger conflict, but this is very late in the day and it is not a serious effort to prevent a new war in Lebanon. It is at best a desperate,...
Do Not Risk Calling Putin’s Bluff
by Ted Snider | Sep 26, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As Russia continues its advance west toward the key logistical city of Pokrovsk, whose fall would threaten Ukraine’s ability to supply its troops in the Donbas and expose fields to the west of the city over which Russian troops can pour into the rest of Donbas,...
A New Primer Brings the ‘Great Debate’ Back To Form
by Brandan P. Buck | Sep 24, 2024 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
H.W. Brands' America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War is an informative and well-needed account of the vitriolic debates that preceded American entry into the Second World War. Brands's treatment is a welcomed addition to a field that, since the...