Republicans are terrible on China. Examples abound, but perhaps the most instructive illustration of this long-term handicap comes from the following quotation: “We must be prepared to go it alone in China if our allies desert us. We must not fool ourselves into...
Foreign Policy
TGIF: “America First” Need Not Be Antiwar
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 30, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Today's Trump-inspired "America First" faction cannot be counted on to be consistently noninterventionist and antiwar. That it may lean that way because its chief rival faction is so enthusiastic about foreign adventurism is hardly a firm assurance that it will remain...
Prigozhin’s Rebellion: What Just Happened in Russia?
by Ted Snider | Jun 28, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader the Wagner group, has ended his siege of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and turned around his march on Moscow. It is not clear what happened nor what was staged and what was real. Each expert and commentator offers a different expert...
An Archaeology of Nineteenth Century American Expansion
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 27, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Last week, context was added to Murray Rothbard’s assertion in Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy that American foreign policy underwent an abrupt shift during the second Cleveland administration (1893-1897). I argued that American foreign policy from...
TGIF: Foreign Policy Matters
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 23, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
In an extra special way, foreign policy matters crucially to champions of individual liberty. Not that it doesn't matter to other people too -- just not in all the same ways. Anyone who understands the importance of keeping government power strictly limited in...
Is Putin Bluffing on Redlines? Ask Putin
by Ted Snider | Jun 22, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On June 13, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with war correspondents and military bloggers for a question and answer session at the Kremlin. One war correspondent asked Putin “a question about the notorious red lines.” Addressing Putin, he said, “Clearly...we are...
In Search of a New Abroad: Contextualizing Developments in U.S. Foreign Policy in the Late 19th Century
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 20, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Was America Destined to be an Empire? While Murray Rothbard is correct in Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy that “the great turning point of American foreign policy came in the early 1890s, during the second Cleveland administration,” this needs...
Our Country Desperately Needs a Peace President
by Ron Paul | Jun 20, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Most people agree that we are closer to nuclear war than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Some would even argue that we are closer now than we were in those fateful days, when Soviet missiles in Cuba almost triggered a nuclear war between the U.S. and...