As the United States edges closer to another military entanglement—this time over the pretense of Iran’s nuclear program—it’s worth revisiting the controversial but deeply compelling argument made by the late Kenneth Waltz in his 2012 Foreign Affairs article, Why Iran...
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America Last: No U.S. Demographic Supports War on Iran
by Connor Freeman and Will Porter | Jun 18, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There is not a single demographic in the United States whose majority is not opposed to American involvement in Israel’s war of aggression against Iran, according to a new poll published by YouGov and the Economist. Perhaps most crucially, this includes voters who backed Donald Trump’s 2024 reelection.
America’s Deception Strengthens Iranian Hardliners
by Ted Snider | Jun 17, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in the strongest of words, to ‘just do it,’ but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done…Certain Iranian hardliner’s spoke bravely, but they didn’t know...
Eisenhower’s Most Important Lesson
by James Rushmore | Jun 16, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
At this point, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address needs no introduction. The thirty-sixth president’s warning about the “acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex” has been cited so often that its...
A Message to Georgians: America Will Not Protect You
by Scott Horton | Jun 11, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Scott Horton
Editor's note: Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton gave this speech to the Tbilisi Summer Forum on June 6, 2025. No offense, but Georgia’s interests are just none of my affair. It’s such a long way from here. I know my government has been messing around there...
The Golden Doom
by Laurie Calhoun | Jun 10, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Back in the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan famously championed the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), referred to colloquially as “Star Wars.” Forty years later, in 2025, President Donald Trump has thrown his enthusiastic support behind what is tantamount to a...
The War in Ukraine Won’t End at the Negotiating Table
by José Niño | Jun 9, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Donald Trump, who returned to the White House on a promise to end the Russo-Ukrainian War, has recently expressed his frustration at how the conflict has played out thus far. In a viral Truth Social post he published on May 25, 2025, Trump manifested his bewilderment...
Israel Threatens Aid Flotilla Will Not Be Allowed to Dock in Gaza
by Connor Freeman | Jun 5, 2025 | Foreign Policy, News
Tel Aviv has threatened that the Gaza Freedom Flotilla will not be allowed to approach the besieged coastal enclave, according to The Jerusalem Post. A civilian activist group is sailing a ship to Gaza as Israel continues its genocidal starvation campaign against the...