The other day, my wife made me a sandwich, and I ate it. Who benefitted from this transaction? I enjoyed the good, but my wife did all the work. I like to think I benefitted from the transaction. It’s in the enjoyment of a good that’s the benefit of the good. The...
In the 1990s, Pat Buchanan came to embody, politically speaking, a movement that Lew Rockwell would later call “paleoism”—a movement of paleolibertarians and paleoconservatives against the statist status quo. On the one hand, paleoconservatives were characterized by...
Israeli politician and former Knesset member Moshe Feiglin believes he is working to realize historical necessity. And that means rebuilding the Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and emptying Gaza of every single Palestinian, either through mass expulsion...
U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly promised he could end the Russo-Ukrainian War quickly. Yet the actions attributed to his administration point toward a more familiar Washington strategy that demands capitulation to the so-called “rules-based” order. The...
Since March, Israeli attacks in Lebanon have displaced more than a million civilians and killed or wounded more than 17,000 people. Al Jazeera reported last month: “Israeli artillery shelling is still causing uncontrollable fires. Lebanese civil defense and...
Barely four years after the Pretoria Agreement formally ended one of the deadliest wars of the twenty-first century, large-scale fighting has returned to Ethiopia. In late September the principal anti-government force, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF),...
To get from Miami to the August fundraiser for Angie Nixon’s primary campaign for U.S. Senate at a Palestinian restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, the fastest route was I-95 to the Florida Turnpike. This is a route along which, during a hazy, 90+ degree mid-afternoon on a...
Death, taxes, and politicians being a massive disappointment—the constants in life. I would add one more item to that list: Ron Paul being consistent. As Europe and Latin America faced revolutionary moments throughout the 2000s, it was Dr. Paul who remained a constant...
Although War Secretary Pete Hegseth poo-pooed reports about dire conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier as “fake, America-hating news,” the U.S. Navy finally confirmed that that eight of its personnel in the strike group attempted suicide during...
What happens to a republic when its government lies so often that lying becomes less a scandal than a method of administration? Charles Goyette’s answer is that the republic becomes an empire, and the empire eventually becomes unable to distinguish its propaganda from...
The title of Jim Ostrowski’s brief and latest book The Government Takes 80% reads at first like a libertarian’s exaggerated fever-dream of government rapacity over the economy. The government takes 80% of the average American’s productivity every year? It sounds...
On April 1, 2026, President Donald Trump delivered his harshest verdict yet on the Atlantic alliance. Asked by The Telegraph whether he would revisit membership after the Iran war, Trump replied, “I would say [it’s] beyond reconsideration. I was never swayed by NATO....
Barely four years after the Pretoria Agreement formally ended one of the deadliest wars of the twenty-first century, serious fighting has returned to northern Ethiopia. As we begin October, Tigrayan forces have seized the airports at Mekelle, Aksum, and Shire,...
On September 17, Julian Assange’s return to Twitter/X did not go unnoticed. With more than fifty-one million impressions, it becomes clear his and WikiLeaks’ impact is undeniable. Still, his journalism and WikiLeaks have not come without scrutiny. Former Republican...
On September 10, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky landed in Canada where he and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney signed a 100-year partnership “elevat[ing] the relationship between their countries into a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and confirming...
Populism trades long-term institutional stability for the short-term high of mob rule, eroding the rule of law to feed its own ego. By reducing complex social realities into a toxic divide of "us versus them," it turns democratic governance into a zero-sum war. When...
The 1998 action thriller Enemy of the State (RIP Gene Hackman) imagined a world in which government surveillance could follow an ordinary citizen almost anywhere, drawing on cameras, communications data, and increasingly sophisticated technology to monitor his...
The same campaign that’s reportedly weakening Iran is also indirectly strengthening China’s economic and strategic position in the Middle East. Israel and the United States’ efforts to eliminate the late Ayatollah’s counterparts have widened a lane for China to exert...
