We have become comfortable in a world where artificial intelligence (AI) has the voice of a Ted Williams but not his life, where "art" can be generated from prompts, and much of the music has less human in it than machine. We have accepted that machines can kill just...
Novara Media are a very prominent Marxist organization in the British political scene. Their commentators get invited on mainstream political shows regularly to offer their opinion on what is a reliably bland political discourse. Their takes are different and do offer...
Blatant election corruption is now the rule rather than the exception across the western world, including in the United States. Elections now serve only one purpose in modern government: They perpetuate the illusion of an elected government that makes decisions. This...
Ancient Rome’s high tax rates enabled maintenance of larger professional armies than were possible in the Middle Ages. Rome partially conquered the world through massive tax-funded government projects, such as investing in roads for their armies to move farther and...
On April 2, 2025, President Donald Trump stood in the White House Rose Garden to declare “Liberation Day”—a sweeping new tariff initiative aimed at reducing the U.S. trade deficit and revitalizing domestic manufacturing. The policy introduces a 10% blanket tariff on...
Much of the media discourse surrounding Signalgate has focused on its national security implications. Nevertheless, the most important—and most overlooked—dimension of The Atlantic leak is the unvarnished look it provides at the Trump administration’s disregard for...
The U.S. government has been using unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs), or lethal drones, to dispatch terrorist suspects with impunity for most of the twenty-first century. Committees of analysts and bureaucrats determine, based on HUMINT (human intelligence, or...
President Donald Trump is set to repeat one of the worst mistakes of his first administration: fighting an unwinnable war in Yemen. This time, it could be far worse as Trump has sent two aircraft carrier strike groups to the Red Sea, meaning Americans will be doing...
There can be no doubt among competent historians that if ... the Austrian School has occupied an almost unique position in the development of economic science, this is entirely due to the foundations laid by this one man.... [I]ts fundamental ideas belong fully and...
In his defense of the proposed Constitution, James Madison warned in Federalist No. 47 that the accumulation of all powers—legislative, executive, and judicial—in the same hands may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Elsewhere, he observed that of...
Since the middle of March, the United States has launched extensive air and naval strikes targeting Houthi installations across Yemen. These strikes killed at least 53 people, including Houthi leaders, and injured many others. The strikes were ostensibly aimed at...
In a recent report for the Libertarian Institute, I traced connections between the American and Saudi players rebuilding Gaza into a surveillance city-state—and building Saudi surveillance cities whose offshoots are finding their ways to America. Digging deeper into...
As Syria begins to collapse into another civil war, western nations brace for the inevitable surge of Syrian refugees to their borders. Amid a national immigration crisis, America should consider how its own foreign policy perpetuates this problem. Over 1,500 people...
Just before Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) started their ongoing series of rallies against Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, Sanders stopped by Face the Nation on CBS and hilariously exclaimed in feigned outrage: “We're...
As Donald Trump's administration rushes to call the vandalism of Teslas across the country “terrorism,” at least one Republican is not comfortable with doing so. In a recent story for Semafor on Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), reporter David Weigel highlighted...
