America’s liberals are apoplectic that President Donald Trump has torn down the East Wing of the White House to build a new ballroom. They haven’t looked into it far enough to discover this was a guest entrance built in 1902 that was later expanded to hold some...
In the waters of the Caribbean, a surprisingly large U.S. fleet sits with Venezuela in its sights. It includes over 10,000 troops, Aegis guided-missile destroyers, a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine, F-35B jet fighters, MQ-9 Reaper drones, P-8 Poseidon spy...
With Donald Trump furiously, ineptly, and fraudulently campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize, it may interest liberals—the classical variety, libertarians—to know that the first Nobel Peace Prize, awarded in 1901, was shared by one of their own. This was a man who...
President Donald Trump is rattling his saber against Colombian President Gustavo Petro to punish him for accusing the U.S. government of murdering Venezuelan fishermen. Trump has boasted of the killings by the U.S. military but claims all the targets were drug...
With silver recently touching record highs, now is the perfect time for looking back to the last time silver traded at such levels—for it is a highly instructive case study, particularly when reinterpreted through an Austrian lens. The story of Nelson Bunker Hunt,...
"This is not only the end of the war, it is the end of an age of terror and death.” Welcome to President Donald Trump's golden age for the Middle East. Never mind that it was reported that dozens of Palestinians were shot by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) since this...
A new poll published by Quinnipiac University finds that only 21% of Americans hold a positive opinion of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Meanwhile, 49% hold a negative view of the Likud leader. And while 47% of respondents believe that U.S. support for...
In the 2006 Mike Judge movie Idiocracy, the dumbed-down human population five-hundred years into the future have replaced water in drinking fountains with the salty sports drink “Brawndo,” and have even begun to water farm crops with Brawndo. Facing a nationwide...
As someone who has been a staunch libertarian for many years, I’ve had a lot of opportunities to witness dialogues about liberty, both as a participant and as an observer. I’ve noticed a recurring theme in these conversations: non-libertarians almost inevitably call...
On a moonless night in September 2025, American warships patrolling the Caribbean Sea opened fire on a Venezuelan vessel, killing eleven people. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described it matter-of-factly as another drug interdiction operation. But to those watching...
Our industrial nation utilized compulsory government schools to train generations of docile, hardworking, obedient, tax-paying employees. Industrialist John D. Rockefeller said, "I don't want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers." The emergence of...
If the continuing incompetence of Congress over passing a budget and reopening the U.S. government doesn't show the absurdity of unlimited representative republicanism, what could do so? Whether or not to extend COVID-era special subsidies for medical insurance...
Among the torrent of publications continually inundating the policy community and reading public, few are worth reading—between banality and bad ideas, most would have been better left unwritten. A notable recent exception to this general rule, however, is Dr. Ivan...
Law is a social institution independent of the existence of the state. Law explicitly recognizes the principles of justice, which can only be consistently recognized as universal for all times and places. These principles serve not only to deliver justice, but also to...
As anti-government protests known as the Arab Spring swept through the Middle East in early 2011, observers felt they were witnessing spontaneous, grassroots calls for freedom against decades of tyranny and dictatorship. While the demands of the protestors were...
On April 15, 2025, the Australian documentary show titled Border Security featured Pete, an American man traveling to Australia to visit his girlfriend, Anna, of ten years. He caught the attention of the airport security since he was traveling alone, and only had six...
Coverage of Zohran Mamdani’s run for New York City mayor is focused on the outsized politics at play in the race: democratic socialism, Islam, state-owned grocers, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, until recently incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, and President Donald Trump. But...
A recent article in Fortune speaks to a computer scientist named Andrew Chien who asserts that the new wave of OpenAI data centers will be consuming as much energy as New York City and San Diego combined when they are operating at full capacity during extreme weather....
