A person would be hard-pressed to find a day in the Washington D.C. calendar where there isn’t some kind of conference. They’re typically small affairs with free lunches, and more useful at hitting a think tank’s spending quota than influencing policy. As a...
Foreign policy
Younger Americans And A Foreign Policy of Restraint
In an article in The Hill, Trevor Thrall argues that younger Americans are ready to embrace a different role for the U.S. in international relationships. Poll after poll shows that Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996, and their younger siblings in Generation Z...
Lebanon Civil War Explained for Dummies
In 1982, Israeli tanks crossed the border into Lebanon to hunt down the PLO. It was supposed to be a quick simple mission to push the Palestinian resistance groups north 25 miles to protect Israel. However, the mission quickly became more complicated with Israel...
2¾ Cheers for the New Quincy Institute
What if George Soros and Charles Koch teamed up to do a thing? Sounds pretty scary so far. What if the project was to build a new antiwar think tank in Washington with the financial backing to make a serious mark? Does that sound even scarier? It shouldn’t. The...
7/17/19 Daniel McAdams on America’s Dangerous Posture Toward Iran
Scott interviews Daniel McAdams about the influence of Mike Pompeo and John Bolton on President Trump's foreign policy. Lately they've made sure to keep up a policy of maximum pressure through economic sanctions, and to avoid negotiations at all costs. It's clear from...
7/17/19 Mark Perry on the Year America Didn’t Go to War
Mark Perry talks about the history of America's near misses on war with Iran, starting with the 1983 Beirut barracks attack that almost led to an American bombing campaign against the Iranians. According to Perry, President Reagan realized that such an attack would be...
Obama’s Unending Wars
David Swanson reviews the book Obama's Unending Wars: Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State. "Kuzmarov places Obama in historical context and outlines his parallels with Woodrow Wilson, another extreme militarist generally understood as a peace...
Conservatives Against Liberty
Recently several prominent social and populist conservatives have attacked libertarianism. These conservatives, some of whom are allies in the fight against our hyper-interventionist foreign policy, blame libertarianism for a variety of social and economic ills. The...
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