In recent weeks, there has been a surge of allegations that Moscow has long orchestrated an illegal campaign to influence U.S. public opinion. On September 4, 2024, the U.S. Justice Department charged two Russian media executives with an alleged scheme that...
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The Ultimate Case Against the Churchill Cult
by Keith Knight | Sep 7, 2024 | Don't Tread on Anyone, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History, Libertarianism
Editor's Note: Language originally referring to "poison gas" has been updated to "tear gas" for clarity. According to the National WWII Museum, the Second World War resulted in 45,000,000 civilian deaths, 15,000,000 combat deaths, and 25,000,000 soldiers permanently...
Churchill Devotees Ignore the Fundamental Question
by James Wile | Sep 7, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Popular historian Darryl Cooper was a guest on the Tucker Carlson Show on September 2 and the podcast caused an eruption of backlash on the internet. Cooper and Carlson discussed several topics, but the one that drew the most hostility was their willingness to...
Democratization as Regime Preservation
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Sep 5, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When in the 1970s it became increasingly clear Taipei and its allies in the United States were no longer going to be able to postpone Washington’s recognition of the Chinese Communist Party government in Beijing, the longtime dictator of Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek,...
Stand Up to Zelensky: A Plea for Sanity
by Ted Snider | Sep 5, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
It is understandable that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is asking the West for all the help they can deliver. It is the primary responsibility of a nation’s leader to protect the citizens of his nation. But by the same accounting, it is the primary...
The Canard of a ‘Hamiltonian Foreign Policy’
by Aaron Sobczak | Sep 3, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Walter Russell Mead asserts in a new piece in Foreign Affairs that what he labels “Jacksonian national populism” and “Jeffersonian isolationism” have both made a significant comeback in the twenty-first century. According to Mead, George W. Bush’s 2003 invasion of...
What Donald Trump Told the National Guard
by Dan McKnight | Sep 2, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
One week ago Donald Trump spoke in Detroit, Michigan in front of the National Guard Association. He recognizes that the National Guard is the backbone of the U.S. Armed Forces, but is too often dismissed as a critical branch. “We always can count on you. I’ve counted...
The Third Taiwan Straits Crisis and Its Enduring Lesson
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 29, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In the words of Justin Raimondo, from his 2011 article, “How decision-makers react to events beyond our borders is decisively shaped by domestic political considerations.” This theory of foreign relations, libertarian realism, eschews the typical narrative of...