"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell." -William Tecumseh Sherman I hate to say I told...
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North vs. South: Korea’s Population Crisis
by Brad Pearce | Aug 27, 2024 | Featured Articles
Birthrates have been falling throughout the developed world for years. While it’s true that the global population can’t and shouldn’t grow forever, and that a gradual decline could be desirable, the current OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development)...
Honest Voices In The Intellectual Ecosystem
by John Weeks | Aug 26, 2024 | Blog
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/8-14-24-matthew-hoh-on-obamas-folly-in-afghanistan-and-recourses-for-managing-and-dealing-with-ptsd/ Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton recently interviewed former USMC Captain / former State Department official Matthew Hoh....

Kamala and the Deadly Perils of Sham Idealism
by Jim Bovard | Aug 26, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
As the presidential race enters the final stretch, politicians are recycling the usual cons to make people believe this election will be different. At last week’s Democratic National Convention, sham idealism had a starring role, accompanied by ritual denunciations of...
Anti-War Blog “Won’t somebody think of the children!”
by Kym Robinson | Aug 26, 2024 | Blog
The French government has recently arrested and detained Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram. The alleged offence is that the messaging app is not policing and governing what it’s users do. So a national government has kidnapped and demands that the CEO give up access to...
Why Elites Hate Trump: A Strategy for the Right
by Keith Knight | Aug 23, 2024 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/_yf1a-KK94w?si=qLU9LVWldGBYD0jt [T]he very fact of government and of taxation creates inherent conflict between two great classes: those who pay taxes, and those who live off them; the net tax payers vs. the tax consumers. The bigger government gets,...
How Taiwan Became an Issue
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 22, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Given that official Washington seems increasingly determined to fight Beijing over Taiwan, concerned Americans are right to wonder: how did the question of Taiwan come to be of such purported importance to these global powers? While several closer islands, such as the...
Broken: The American Shipbuilding Crisis
by Bill Buppert | Aug 22, 2024 | Blog
USS The Sullivans sinking in New York in 2022. Over the decades, the destroyers have fallen into various states of disrepair. In April 2022, The Sullivans suffered a hull breach and partially sank at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park in Buffalo,...
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Atrocities Quote
I thought I had put this in Enough Already -- or something? But I want to put it here for safe keeping at least. As told to me by a former marine on Twitter: “To get one to commit the greatest atrocities, you do not need to convince evil men to do evil. You need to...
Mountain of Ambition
This is an older allegory thing that I wrote back in early 2022 The Mountain of Ambition Imagine if you will that upon the horizon sits an impressive mountain. It is the distant fixture that confronts you every day. So far away and yet, it stands as it...
Immigration Control and the Rule of Law
If you think that immigration control does not strike at the heart of the rule of law, you need to listen to this: https://youtu.be/Ierrs3E3Qow?si=8Szi0YiuDfh7Xgte
The Palestinians: The Libertarian Take
Even if the Palestinians are not a People, they nevertheless are and always have been people—that is, individual human beings with natural rights, namely, the rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. Like everyone else. But individuals can come...
Creative Chaos: Inside the CIA’s Covert War to Topple the Syrian Government
Announcing the publication of the Libertarian Institute's 17th book, the long-promised, Creative Chaos: Inside the CIA's Covert War to Topple the Syrian Government, by the great William Van Wagenen....
Culture War w/Adam Nutter
Anytime I want to discuss cultural issues professional comedian Adam Nutter is my man. We discuss Big Balls beatdown, Sydney Sweeney, and Epstein subpoenas.
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