It is often said that good educators teach students how to think, not what to think. This is indeed a profound notion. Sadly, we have witnessed a great deal of hypocrisy in attaining this aspiration. Moreover, despite an obsessive focus on constructing “safe spaces”...
A key reason that Russia went to war in Ukraine was to prevent Ukraine from ever joining NATO; a key reason that Ukraine went to war with Russia was to defend their right to join NATO. On December 14, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave up Ukraine’s right to...
I'm pretty sure I won't be around long enough to see anarcho-capitalism—or what I call market-ordered anarchism—prevail in the United States. I'm just as sure that I won't see government strictly limited to protecting individual rights and never violating them (if...
In the closing days of 2025, the White House turned an opioid crisis into a national security drama. Standing in the Oval Office during a Mexican Border Defense Medal ceremony on December 15, President Donald Trump declared that he would sign an executive order to...
David T. Beito’s FDR: A New Political Life offers a bracing, deeply researched, and welcome reassessment of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one that decisively breaks with the hagiographic tradition that has dominated twentieth century American historiography. The book’s...
There are lots of historical precedents for large numbers of multigenerational non-citizens in a country. None of them are attractive examples to follow. There were the Jews in ancient Egypt, the Huns and the Vandals in the Roman Empire, Irish Catholics under penal...
The bombs never fall on Washington, and that has always been Europe’s problem. Europe often claims it is finally awake and that the war in Ukraine has clarified the stakes of this century. The deeper lesson is older and harder: the continent is positioned, not...
Recent reports indicate the United States is preparing to establish a military presence at an airbase in Damascus, allegedly to facilitate a security agreement between Syria and Israel. This development represents yet another misguided expansion of American military...
Americans who value civil liberties are justifiably outraged at reports about some of the enforcement tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Similar complaints are now surfacing about the behavior of ICE’s sister agency, Customs and Border...
Across the American political spectrum, support for the State of Israel is steadily eroding. With the long-running, staggeringly expensive redistribution of American wealth and weapons to one of the world’s most prosperous countries under unprecedented threat,...
Once again, the U.S. global military empire is the father of the fear that it propagates. And this time it’s right here in our own backyard. Just as freezing Russia’s dollar assets has encouraged foreign central banks’ gold accumulation and driven global...
The proposed merger of Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) "could be a problem," Donald Trump says, because Netflix has "a very big market share. When they have Warner Bros., that share goes up a lot." He said he would consult "some economists" on the matter,...
The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy of the United States of America, published last week, presents itself as a decisive break from the bipartisan foreign policy consensus that has shaped Washington’s posture since the end of the Cold War. In some...
On December 5, 1886, on a windswept homestead near De Smet in Dakota Territory, Rose Wilder Lane entered a world of adversity. She was the only surviving child of Laura Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder. Within a few short years her family’s cabin burned, her parents were...
If you attempt to smuggle heroin into Indonesia, where I happen to be writing this sentence, and you are caught and convicted of doing so, then you will be subject to the death penalty. There are other places in the world as well where smuggling drugs is, by law, a...
The Guardian, among other mainstream outlets, have reported the revelation of senior British military officers covering up the war crimes of the Special Air Service (SAS) units while deployed in Afghanistan during the Global War on Terror. The whistleblower, an...
With the retirement next month of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in the face of vociferous attacks from President Donald Trump, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is the only member of any of the three branches of our government who consistently and on principle opposes...
There was a time, not long ago, when the United States had the social etiquette to conduct its coups clandestinely. That is important because it means they recognized that it is wrong. Coups were carried out by the CIA, and we often only found out years later. Now,...
