What is the best ethical framework upon which to hang the case for liberty? The libertarian debate over this question has long been cast as a contest between natural rights and utilitarianism. Murray N. Rothbard championed the natural rights position, most thoroughly...
On October 6, 1973, as Israel’s leaders observed the solemn rituals of Yom Kippur, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a coordinated surprise assault across the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights. Within hours, Israel’s much-vaunted military machine was reeling. Entire...
When the late Justin Raimondo, co-founder and longtime editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote in 2011 that the anti-interventionist movement needed a “big picture” framework, he was attempting to distill decades of polemic into a theory of international relations....
To hear border hawks tell it, European countries like Ireland are “overrun” with immigrants and have torched the culture. “We won’t even have a country any more,” people will tell you in a panicked voice about immigration, as if Ireland is one example of how the...
In the third chapter of An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, economist Adam Smith observed the following: "In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them scarce...
In 1999, the Supreme Court recognized that the “‘constitutional right to travel from one State to another’ is firmly embedded in our jurisprudence.” Unless, of course, federal agents secretly disapprove of you, your beliefs, or your suspected connections. The...
NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is attracting growing attention as it threatens to spiral out of control. There is ample reason for concern. What began as a limited military assistance program to Kiev from the United States and its European allies following...
“I wear two hats, one representing the people of Israel, the other representing the Jewish people around the world." These are the words I was instructed to write into more remarks than I can remember over my eight and a half years working as the Strategic Outreach...
The Washington Naval Treaty is usually treated, when mentioned at all by historians, as an unmitigated failure, but—although he says this in the most pianissimo tones—I think John Jordan’s Warships After Washington: The Development of the Five Major Fleets,...
In a recent interview with Nathan Goodman of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Professor Michael Clemens, a GMU specialist in migration economics, put forth "a strange and striking fact about the world economy." A lower-skilled person's location in the...
With Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve beginning a cutting cycle, it is worth revisiting why the Feds manipulation of interest rates is not a harmless (if misguided) technocratic tool for attempting to “fine-tune” the economy, but is instead a source of deep...
Under a democratic state, your money can be likened to a piece of bread thrown into a pond where fish from both the left and right nibble away. Your money and rights are fought over and consumed in ways you did not consent to. In modern governmental systems, the tax...
Libertarians frequently note the incoherence of American and Israeli foreign policy. Nowhere is this more apparent than with respect to American and Israeli relations with Iran over the last seventy-five years. Last June, the United States and Israel bombed Iran on...
“We candlemakers are suffering from the unfair competition of a foreign rival, whose production costs are so low that he floods our market with light at a price far below ours…This rival is none other than the sun.”- Frédéric Bastiat, Economic Sophisms (1845) Frédéric...
On Monday, September 22, the current president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, joined the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), David Petraeus, on stage for a discussion at the Concordia Annual Summit in New York City. The summit is one of the most...
Spain, long seen as a loyal NATO ally, is now carving out a path that could make it the West’s most unexpected rebel. Since 2023, the Spanish government under the leadership of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has pursued an increasingly independent course that directly...
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...
