Robert Naiman explains why the Saudi-led war in Yemen, which Scott calls the worst thing the U.S. is doing right now, is unjust and unconstitutional. President Obama started to support the Saudis in their campaign during his second term, supposedly as a favor in...
Conservatives
Why Facts and Data Are Less Persuasive Than Moral Appeals
When’s the last time you heard somebody say: “that statistical table really changed my view of how society should be organized”? Probably never. That’s because facts don’t persuade, but emotions do. People’s views are shaped by their moral intuitions first, reasoning...
For Cliff May, War Pays
To say that Clifford May, founder of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, loves war would be an understatement. He loves almost everything about war and he thinks the US should be in a lot more of them. He thinks that the US should never go home, should...
American Conservatives Are the Forgotten Critics of the Atomic Bombing of Japan
“The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul,” he wrote. “The only difference between this and the use of gas (which President Franklin D. Roosevelt had barred as a first-use weapon in World War II) is the fear of...
Open Borders Are Compatible With a Welfare State
For some time now, there has been a conservative faction within the libertarian movement that has advocated that libertarians abandon their position in favor of open borders and instead join up with conservatives and progressives in support of government-controlled...
Dan McAdams on the Media’s Hilarious Gabbard Narrative
These idiots. The best they can do is claim that Tulsi Gabbard is some kind of "Russian agent!" and that oh, no, "some rightwingers like her." But what do these rightwingers or libertarians like about her? That she's (relatively) antiwar! That is supposed to be...
True Budget Hawks are Foreign Policy Doves
During my presidential campaigns, well-meaning supporters would sometimes suggest I stop emphasizing opposition to overseas intervention and focus on fiscal issues. I disregarded the advice, not only because adopting a noninterventionist foreign policy is crucial to...
The Real Korean Question
Last year in June, Donald Trump met with the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, in Singapore. Said Trump, We’re very proud of what took place today. I think our whole relationship with North Korea and the Korean Peninsula is going to be a very much different...
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