The lesser of two or many evils is a line of reasoning that tends to favor the status quo. It compromises principles and human dignity to a point where we are made to understand the benefits of injustice and less freedom. We are told, it could always be worse. If one...
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TGIF: The Russians Are Coming? The Russians Are Coming?
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 13, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an...
Debate Debacle: Our Bleak Foreign Policy Future
by Daniel Larison | Sep 12, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
The first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump presented a bleak picture of the future of U.S. foreign policy no matter who wins in November. On the most urgent and important foreign policy issue of the year, the...
Fighting the ‘Middle State’
by Brad Pearce | Sep 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
From around the middle of the twentieth century, federal agencies tasked with law enforcement, intelligence gathering, and various types of “defense” have accrued overwhelming power in the United States. Democrats, who now worship such agencies, may wail at the term...
Did the IRS Manipulate the 2020 Election?
by Jim Bovard | Sep 9, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
Hunter Biden pled guilty on Thursday to a barrage of federal tax crimes. But will the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department ever plead guilty to stealing the 2020 election for Joe Biden? In 2023, the IRS assessed 18,599,109 penalties on individuals who...
TGIF: What Government Has Wrought
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 6, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Imagine two candidates for president, and ask yourself who is more likely to win. Candidate A observes that people are facing generally rising prices. Their total at the supermarket checkout is higher than last year. Filling up the car at the gas station takes a...
Democracy’s Damndest Defamation
by Jim Bovard | Sep 4, 2024 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
In a democracy, people automatically become liable for whatever the government inflicts upon them. Many of the most deadly errors of contemporary political thinking stem from the notion that in a democracy the government is the people and vice versa, so there is scant...
What Donald Trump Told the National Guard
by Dan McKnight | Sep 2, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
One week ago Donald Trump spoke in Detroit, Michigan in front of the National Guard Association. He recognizes that the National Guard is the backbone of the U.S. Armed Forces, but is too often dismissed as a critical branch. “We always can count on you. I’ve counted...