Scott interviews Greg Mitchell about The Beginning or the End, his new book that tells the story of the making of the 1947 film of the same name. The movie was conceived as an exposé on the horrors of America's use of the nuclear bomb against Japan, partly at the...
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8/27/19 Gar Alperovitz: the Decision to Nuke Japan
by Scott Horton | Aug 28, 2019 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show
Historian Gar Alperovitz shares the history of America's use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Contrary to what most of us learned in school, many of the top military officers and intelligence officials were adamant at the time that use of the bombs was...
8/23/19 Peter Van Buren: the Hiroshima Myth
by Scott Horton | Aug 25, 2019 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Peter Van Buren about the effects of war on American culture. They discuss the fact that America has been at war almost constantly for its entire history, ever since the nation was formed by overthrowing the British. Having an external enemy supposedly...
8/16/19 John Mueller on Finally Ending the War in Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Aug 19, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Cato's John Mueller about why it's time to leave Afghanistan. Fundamentally, the Taliban cannot be defeated at any remotely acceptable cost of American lives and U.S. dollars, says Mueller, and at the same time military interventions has only made the...
American Conservatives Are the Forgotten Critics of the Atomic Bombing of Japan
by Barton Bernstein | Aug 13, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“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...
The Long-suppressed Korean War Report on U.S. Use of Biological Weapons Released At Last
by Jeffrey Kaye | Feb 21, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Download the full report here. +++++++++++ Back in the early 1950s, the U.S. conducted a furious bombing campaign during the Korean War, dropping hundreds of thousands of tons of ordnance, much of it napalm, on North Korea. The bombardment, worse than any country had...
New Year’s 2018 – Star Trek, The Future, Deluded Liberals, And Hope
by Zack Sorenson | Dec 31, 2017 | Featured Articles
We need a libertarian Star Trek, I think. I love Trek. I have some things to say about it, after I critique it. The truth is, I suspect 2018 (and the years to follow), are going to be very very bad years for us. For mankind. This is also an article about...
There Is Little Reason to Believe North Korea Has an H-Bomb
by Marko Marjanovic | Sep 8, 2017 | Blog
Are Washington and Pyongyang enemies or symbiotes? For supposed enemies they sure agree on a lot of dubious information. For example they both agree North Korea tested a hydrogen bomb last Sunday though there's little to indicate that is true. Early estimates put the...
News Roundup 8/8/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 8, 2017 | Blog
This article looks at the generals in Trump's administration. [Link] Police were able to seize $21,000 from a sex worker with civil asset forfeiture. [Link] The City of Chicago is using SWAT to manage mental health crises. [Link] The son of "El-Chapo" has been...
Truman, A-Bombs, and the Killing of Innocents
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 6, 2017 | Blog
Today marks the 72nd anniversary of U.S. President Harry Truman's atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. The atomic bombing of Nagasaki took place three days later in 1945. Some 90,000-166,000 individuals were killed in Hiroshima. The Nagasaki bombing killed...
War Is Not Moral
by Zack Sorenson | May 31, 2017 | Blog
I recently finished an article where I lay out why I think war itself should be considered immoral, and what an alternative could be. When I was in the military, I struggled knowing that my hard work was helping get people killed. Those who maybe deserved it but also...
Welcome to America’s ‘Nuclear Sponge’
by Tom Collina | Feb 9, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The United States currently deploys hundreds of nuclear missiles across Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Wyoming. Each missile carries a nuclear payload many times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, capable of killing hundreds of thousands of people....
Pearl Harbor: Should Abe Apologize?
by Thomas L. Knapp | Dec 7, 2016 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On May 27, Barack Obama became the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima, site of history’s first atomic attack on August 6, 1945. The Japanese government did not ask Obama for an apology, nor did he offer one. On December 27, Shinzo Abe will become the first...
Apple Atomics: Nuclear Survival In A Liberated Age
by Martin Pappalardo | Dec 1, 2016 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
In debates, particularly with those on the left who share a proclivity for hyperbole, the subject of self-defense soon has the libertarian tasked not only with a defense of firearm ownership, but with defending themselves in their newfound position as proponents of...
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Crime and Poverty
“The theory that crime is caused by poverty is not supported by the known facts. The very poor, in fact, tend to be just as law-abiding as the rich, and perhaps more so. To argue otherwise is to libel multitudes of people who keep to decency under severe difficulties,...
Don’t Be Silent
We should reject the fashionable idea that one should never write or post anything that possibly could be used by bad people for bad purposes. That admonition brings two things to mind. First, it fails its own test. If good people avoid a topic because even...
Can There Be Only One Race?
I'm old enough to remember this 1960s Lay's Potato Chips commercial. (Hell, I'm almost old enough to remember when plays were in black and white!) In the commercial a man (Bert Lahr, the cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz) faces a challenge from the devil, who has a...
How Not to Defend “Capitalism” Against” Socialism”
I challenge you to show me a lamer "debate" over "capitalism" and "socialism." (Don't worry; it's not about Bill Maher.)
Yes, Andrew Sullivan Demanded W. Bush Nuke Iraq
He wrote on October 17, 2001: THE COMING CONFLICT: The sophisticated form of anthrax delivered to Tom Daschle's office forces us to ask a simple question. What are these people trying to do? I think they're testing the waters. They want to know how we will respond to...
War is a Euphemism for Theft Funded Mass Murder
The libertarian’s basic attitude toward war must then be: it is legitimate to use violence against criminals in defense of one’s rights of person and property; it is completely impermissible to violate the rights of other innocent people. War, then, is only proper...
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