The early polling on President Donald Trump’s war against Iran presents what might, at first glance, look like a constraint on escalation. Across numerous polls a majority of Americans oppose the conflict with support for military action rarely breaking out of the...
The Israeli-American attack on Iran has been defined more than anything by the nonsensical nature of the messaging, with statements listing any number of potential goals. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump, always eccentric and erratic, has been ranting about an...
During the late nineteenth century, under the aegis of a colonial order supervised by the French and British and German Empires, the constitutional monarch of Belgium, a tiny country in Europe, created an imitation empire that became the world’s evilest regime. In...
“We've won. Let me tell you, we've won. You know, you never like to say too early you won. We won. We won the – in the first hour it was over. We won," President Donald Trump declared, claiming “we won” five times in just thirteen seconds at a Kentucky rally on March...
It should be understood that rape—sexual coercion—is immoral. It takes tribalism and legal jargon to conjure up a reason as to why rape may be allowable. For those who value the rights of the individual and human dignity, sexual violence and coercion is repulsive....
Editors note: The following article is a transcript of a a speech given by Libertarian Institute Managing Editor Keith Knight in Omaha, Nebraska on March 7, 2026. One of the most absurd features of the political and media establishment, is how they have impossible...
Former FBI director Robert Mueller died last week at the age of 81. The New York Times eulogized him as a “button-down, lockjawed, rock-ribbed exemplar of a vanishing caste.” In reality, Mueller was simply a twenty-first century version of J. Edgar Hoover, trampling...
The United States can conjure trillions of dollars from thin air through the magic of the Federal Reserve's printing press. What it cannot conjure into existence are the missiles, interceptors, and precision munitions that modern warfare devours at a pace Washington...
War is often sold to the public as an act of national will: decisive, necessary, and under control. The bill arrives later, in a quieter form. It shows up in insurance markets, shipping rates, emergency guarantees, higher fuel prices, and sudden policy reversals...
In 2008, a book appeared called Deleting the State: An Argument About Government. It was a trim volume, barely a hundred pages of actual text, but it hit me with the force of a hundred pounds from the very first page. As an undergraduate political science student, I...
Over the last week, the war between Iran, Israel, and the United States has played out in a second theater that never sleeps: the timeline of X/Twitter. The feed is saturated with claims about battlefield damage, casualty numbers, “secret” losses, and the health or...
Not distracted by the war on Iran, on March 3, President Donald Trump, once again, warned that Cuba was in its “last moments.” The next day, he said, “It may be a friendly takeover. It may not be a friendly takeover. It wouldn’t matter because they are down to, as...
Governments that want to send young people to die in distant countries have always faced the same problem: the arithmetic of the transaction is unfavorable. You are asking a twenty-three-year-old to trade his life for a geopolitical objective he cannot see, in a...
“Maybe I had a brain tumor.” That was NBC News anchorman Brian Williams in 2015 desperately fishing for an explanation when his ever-evolving fantasy claims on national television about his combat experience in the Iraq War were finally exposed. But it wasn’t a brain...
As outrageous as the comportment of the current U.S. president may be to many people throughout the world, there is a silver lining to Donald Trump’s endless series of threats, whether overt or implied, against the citizens of Canada, Venezuela, Greenland, Iran,...
When American and Israeli warplanes struck Iran on February 28, 2026, launching what Washington dubbed Operation Epic Fury, most NATO allies fell into line. Spain did not. In the days that followed, the government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez barred American forces...
The “war that isn’t” with Iran has been raging now for two weeks and its effects have been felt across the pond. Anecdotally, petrol prices in an area close to this writer have risen by six pence per litre in the time since it began. But the biggest effects are...
The Trump administration has enlisted the support of Kurdish activists in Syria, Iraq, and Iran to join the U.S.-led war to unseat Iran’s clerical regime. CNN reports that the Central Intelligence Agency is already arming Iranian Kurds. CNN and other outlets also...
