The Trump administration is ending one of the biggest statistical scams in Washington. For thirty years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued an annual “food security” report that politicians used to fabricate an illusion of mass hunger. USDA announced...
Last week, Pope Leo XIV renewed his calls for peace in the Gaza Strip, this time by commending the various Catholic organizations who registered their solidarity with the besieged population of the territory. Since assuming the papacy in April, Leo has consistently...
Trump fibbed when he signed his first executive order in January, the one that promised never to repeat the Biden-era barriers to free speech. Everyone knows this by now. FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) summed it up well, yet only scratched...
Few twentieth‑century champions of laissez‑faire economics have cast a longer shadow than Leonard Edward Read. Born in Hubbardston, Michigan in 1898, Read founded the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and wrote nearly thirty books and hundreds of essays. He...
September is Constitution Month, a celebration of the document produced by the 1787 Convention to replace the Articles of Confederation. Predictably, whether Republican or Democrat, there was no shortage of public effusions in its praise. Even libertarians, inheritors...
Moldova’s September 28, 2025 parliamentary elections are shaping up to be another highly contentious struggle between pro-Russia and anti-Russia factions. Both the European Union and Moscow are accusing each other of illicit election meddling to put their respective...
On the Wednesday of the last week of July, a former Florida State University employee approached a man wearing an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) shirt on campus and began berating him for his support of a state she believed was committing genocide. By the next day, she...
If you could be shown that you were being lied into a narrative about an immigrant crime wave in Britain, would that make you more skeptical of the wider narrative of a refugee crime wave across both Europe and America? Migration Central, one of Britain’s immigration...
Though I do not personally identify as a libertarian, one of the things I admire about libertarians is their emphasis on protecting individual rights. Freedom of conscience and freedom of religion are among our most important rights. I’ve made no secret about not...
Reporting has recently emerged that the United States is considering direct strikes on Venezuela that could increase volatility in the region and the risk of war. Under the pretext of disrupting the flow of drugs into the United States by Venezuelan drug cartels, the...
If you had to pick the single most influential individual of the twentieth century, Vladimir Lenin would almost certainly be in the top of your bracket. While a certain Austrian art student might have a bit more x-factor—as we say in the sales business—the leader of...
In his polemical essay Vision of the Anointed, economist Thomas Sowell argues that grand political visions seldom survive contact with reality. Politicians promise to banish war and debt, only to preside over more of both. The bigger the promises, the easier it is to...
For at least 200 years, classical liberals (aka libertarians) have warned that the more power the government wields, the greater the lengths people will go to get their hands on it before their ideological opponents do. This is not rocket science, yet resistance to...
Empires, unlike revolutions, don’t have heralds; they work off quiet aggrandizements of power, not bold declarations of freedom. But America’s imperial class appears to have a member who’s missed that memo: the Zionist hedge fund manager William Ackman, a...
For several years and in a variety of works at the Libertarian and Mises Institutes, I have argued that Washington’s bipartisan consensus about Beijing as an aggressive, revisionist challenger to U.S. global supremacy was deeply misguided. Far from seeking global...
The U.S. government has been executing suspected terrorists without indictment, much less trial, since the dawning of the Drone Age, on November 3, 2002. On that day, the George W. Bush administration used a Predator drone to dispatch six alleged terrorist suspects in...
The world is now closer to a full-scale war between NATO and Russia than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. In the early morning hours of September 10, 2025, Western air defenses spotted a fleet of Russian drones that had entered Poland’s...
In 2025, the Justice Department declared that billionaire Jeffrey Epstein "harmed over one thousand victims”—mostly young females, many of them underage. But a dozen years before his suspicious death in a New York prison cell, Epstein "was granted immunity from...
