Seemingly out of nowhere, at the beginning of November, President Donald Trump started musing about taking military action in Nigeria to save the Christians from the Islamist terrorist groups Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province. These groups, which...
There is much of significance happening in Ukraine right now that is being reported either lightly or not at all by the mainstream Western media in an apparent attempt to harmonize their reporting with Kiev’s narrative in order to keep hopes high and economic and...
Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani's mayoral victory in New York City is a triumph of moral barbarism, economic illiteracy, illogic, and just plain envy. Mamdani's campaign had a double pitch: billionaires should not exist, and "the people" deserve free stuff. At...
In the sweltering heat of a second Trump term, the ghosts of interventionist folly are stirring once more. On October 31, 2025, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to declare Nigeria a "country of particular concern" for religious freedom violations, alleging...
For decades, Ron Paul has been the most high-profile supporter of the consistent life ethic in American political life. Consistent life ethicists subscribe to the “premise or theory that all human life is inherently valuable, and therefore, that all humans deserve to...
Imagine it’s a bright and pleasant Sunday morning. You walk through the doors of your church and are greeted by familiar faces, friendly handshakes, and warm coffee. The service is an uplifting refuge from a challenging week full of difficulties at home and at work....
Tucker Carlson sat down with Nick Fuentes, and the gates of hell yawned open—at least according to the professional pearl-clutchers of Conservative Inc. Eric Metaxas, the radio host who once fancied himself a Dietrich Bonhoeffer for talk radio, thundered that Carlson...
Former U.S. Vice President Richard “Dick” Cheney died on November 3, 2025 at age 84; his family said he had suffered from pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. Best known for steering national security policy after the 9/11 attacks, he became the dominant force...
Some folks who know my work presume that I am implacably opposed to all federal agencies. Not true. I have always appreciated federal agencies who exposed the waste, fraud, abuse, and brazen lies committed by politicians and bureaucrats. The second Trump...
The epistemological basis for the set of fundamental rules and principles for peace and justice is the ownership of one’s own body, because if people do not have the legitimate right to decide about it, what legal or moral reason would anyone else have to respect...
Tucker Carlson haters lie because they have to lie. Mark Levin, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and company get on their stages and behind their microphones and claim that he's some vicious anti-semite, attempting to make any association with him permanently toxic and...
In March 2014, the late Senator John McCain of Arizona stood on the Senate floor and declared that "Russia is now a gas station masquerading as a country." He repeated this characterization the following year on CNN's State of the Union, elaborating that Russia was...
We may be sure that the "separation of powers" doctrine is of no interest to the vulgar egotist currently residing in the White House, which happens to be undergoing the most glorious renovation the world has ever known. Or so we hear. But it stands to reason that the...
As the leaves turn in Washington and the chill of autumn settles over global markets, the United States and China have once again danced to the familiar tune of trade negotiations. On October 26, 2025, following two days of closed-door talks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,...
Ralph Raico was an American historian and libertarian public intellectual who devoted his life to recovering the liberal tradition and exposing the predatory nature of state power. Teaching European history at Buffalo State College and serving as a senior fellow of...
Announcing the launch of the Scott Horton Academy of Foreign Policy and Freedom. In collaboration with the great Tom Woods, I've put together this project featuring long-form courses by me, Jim Bovard, Ramzy Baroud and William Buppert, with more coming soon... The...
In a recent report for the Libertarian Institute, I investigated Zionists’ role in creating the crisis point at which New York City now finds itself: caught between a colonial elite which has commandeered government and a progressive-socialist backlash to that elite...
From 1820 to 1914, the classical gold standard provided the monetary foundation for one of the greatest economic transformations in history. Stable prices, disciplined credit, and broad trust in long-term savings enabled railroads, canals, telegraphs, electricity, and...
