The war drums are beating, and public officials and the media are certain that the enemy must be conquered. The war is over there, away from home, in someone else's. The public is conditioned to accept that war is inevitable, that for the liberal democracies of...
Foreign Policy
Murray Rothbard’s ‘War Guilt in the Middle East,’ Spanish Translation
by Murray N. Rothbard | Jan 31, 2024 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
Editor's Note: This Murray Rothbard article was originally featured in the Spring-Autumn 1967 issue of Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought, and is republished with permission of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Credit for the translation belongs to Mamela...
Richard Sakwa Explains How We Ended Up In A New Cold War
by Ted Snider | Jan 31, 2024 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The war in Ukraine is a complicated tangle of three wars in one. It is a civil war between Ukraine’s European leaning west and its Russian leaning east. It is a war between Ukraine and Russia. And it is a war between Russia and NATO. Ben Abelow’s book, How the West...
Debacles at Home and Abroad Propel ‘Defend the Guard’
by Jim Bovard | Jan 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The National Guard is back in the headlines thanks to a showdown at the Texas border and Joe Biden’s latest foreign policy debacle. The Biden administration has refused to enforce federal law to limit undocumented immigrants (many of whom “lost” their documents just...
Western Media’s Blackout of Israel’s “Hannibal Directive”
by Brad Pearce | Jan 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Editor's note: The Libertarian Institute's Executive Director Scott Horton recently spoke with Brad Pearce about the subject of this article and Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel. Their interview can be found here. In the time since the October 7 invasion of Israel...

The Meaning of ‘Finish ‘Em Off!’
by Laurie Calhoun | Jan 29, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
What began as a nearly universal outpouring of sympathy for the victims of the crimes of October 7, 2023, has now followed the post-9/11 trajectory, with the Israel government killing multiple times the number of victims destroyed in the precipitating attack by Hamas....

‘Black Hawk Down’ For Biden in the Red Sea
by Dan McAdams | Jan 29, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The breaking news that Ansar Allah (Houthi) fighters have fired on the USS Carney in the Red Sea today [Friday, January 26] underscores the shocking failure of the Biden Administration, which initiated airstrikes on the Houthis this month with no plan for “victory”...

TGIF: Without the State, Who’d Drag Us into Other People’s Wars?
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 26, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
This article was posted shortly before the International Court of Justice ruled provisionally that Israel's Gaza military operation can plausibly be described as acts outlawed by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The ICJ...