As noted in part 1, the New Deal was in serious political trouble by 1937. (See Frederic Sanborn, “Collapse of the New Deal,” in W.A. Williams, ed., Shaping of American Diplomacy, II.) Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace’s book New Frontiers (1934) was an early sign...
Foreign Policy
Boris Johnson’s foreign policy in Syria is based on wishful thinking
Johnson spoke grandly of using ‘submarine-based cruise missiles in the Med’ against Assad to support Trump, but in fact Britain’s capacity to do anything militarily effective is very limited There is nothing surprising in Boris Johnson saying that it would be...
Libertarianism Can Offer Clear Answers About War And Peace
Are there clear limits which should be applied to the scope of the state’s warfighting powers, or should its ability to use violence in pursuit of its political aims be unlimited? Can libertarianism help define these limits, even for non-libertarians? I recently...
TGIF: Talk to, Don’t Provoke, North Korea
There's little more we can do than hope that some cool heads around Donald Trump are telling him he'd be nuts to attack North Korea. I don't know who they might be. Still, we must hope. It doesn't take a lifetime of study to know that, fortunately, no military...
Intel Vets Voice Doubts on Syrian Crisis
Two dozen former U.S. intelligence professionals are urging the American people to demand clear evidence that the Syrian government was behind the April 4 chemical incident before President Trump dives deeper into another war. AN OPEN MEMORANDUM FOR THE AMERICAN...
The CIA director is waging war on truth-tellers like WikiLeaks
Mike Pompeo, in his first speech as director of the CIA, chose to declare war on free speech rather than on the United States’ actual adversaries. He went after WikiLeaks, where I serve as editor, as a “non-state hostile intelligence service.” In Pompeo’s worldview,...
Trump Vocalized A Massive Truth About Terrorism…But Is Anyone Paying Attention?
President Trump, who flipped his position on NATO (amongst his many other flips) is now trying to explain why he originally and accurately called the military bureaucracy "obsolete." Trump's new excuse is that he "didn't know much about NATO," when he said it, which...
Venezuela’s Lessons for America
The dire situation in Venezuela holds valuable lessons for the American people. The first lesson involves Venezuela’s economic system, which is based on socialism and interventionism. It has produced nothing but chaos, crisis, misery, conflict, discord, and poverty....
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