One of the more puzzling features of the U.S. approach to world affairs is how officials persist in their enthusiasm for economic sanctions as a worthwhile policy tool despite massive evidence regarding their futility. More than three decades ago, Gary Hufbauer,...
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Trying to Build Peace One BRICS At a Time
by Ted Snider | May 25, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In the early days of the war in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was open to negotiating a peace. The United States was not. State Department spokesman Ned Price explained, oddly, that the midst of a war is not the time for diplomacy. “This is not real...
A Few Thousand Years of Chinese Foreign Policy (In a Nutshell)
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 23, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
An examination of Chinese foreign policy historically lends little support to those who depict China as secretly plotting to take over the world. Rather, it points to an entity preoccupied with managing its complex, local strategic environment and internal security...
Betting on Russian Submission? Don’t Roll Those Dice
by Derek Wheeler | May 23, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As we enjoy our lives within the neocon utopia that's been carefully crafted for us, let us set aside, for a moment, all basic morality and the natural rights of life, liberty, and property. Surely, if we put on the same hegemonic blinders worn by the likes of John...
News Roundup 5/8/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | May 8, 2023 | News Roundup
Assange Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has expressed frustration over the Biden administration’s efforts to convict WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, an Australian citizen. AWC Russia The Pentagon has ordered more Javelin anti-tank missiles manufactured by...
Libertarianism Should Not Be Hostile to Women’s Liberation
by Kym Robinson | May 4, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
A young college woman is raped by a man. No justice is found because the rapist is an otherwise “promising young man” with a future ahead of him. His victim is merely a blip on his sterling professional conduct. Those who witnessed or were aware of the rape pretend as...
US Issues Warnings to China, Then Calls for High-Level Talks
by Kyle Anzalone | May 3, 2023 | News
Nicholas Burns, the US Ambassador to China, warned Beijing about supporting Moscow and called for talks during a speech on Tuesday.
Washington Frustrated with Allies Refusal to Enforce Sanctions on Russia
by Kyle Anzalone | May 2, 2023 | News
The White House is becoming frustrated with its partners in the Group of 7’s (G7) refusal to commit to its economic war against the Kremlin. After the invasion of Ukraine last year, President Joe Biden pledged to isolate Moscow and cripple the Russian economy. However, the Kremlin has found ample access to the world economy, including some of Washington’s closest allies.
The World Is Changing, But Is Washington Finally Noticing?
by Ted Snider | Apr 26, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Recent statements by two Biden administration officials hint that the United States is finally noticing that the world around them is changing. On April 11, CIA Director William Burns spoke at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. In a somewhat stunning...
News Roundup 4/24/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 24, 2023 | News Roundup
US News Mike Morrell, the former acting CIA director, revealed to the House Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. Jim Jordan, that he played a key role in rallying former intelligence officials to sign a letter which sought to discredit reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop...
US, Allies Consider Ban on All Exports to Russia
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 20, 2023 | News
Washington is in discussion with several Western partners about ending trade with Russia outright. The debate is occurring as the US-led economic war on Moscow has failed to halt its military action in Ukraine.
‘Aryan Republican Army’ Linked to OKC Bombing in New Showtime Series
by Ken Silva | Apr 19, 2023 | Featured Articles
“Robbing banks was never the point...Payback’s coming, and it’s coming sooner than you think,” said a Neo-Nazi bank robber named “Wild Bill” in Showtime’s Waco: The Aftermath, which premiered Friday. Wild Bill’s statement was a foreshadowing of the Oklahoma...
China is the Rock Upon Which the U.S. World Order Breaks
by Ted Snider | Apr 4, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In March, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, where they not only "reaffirm[ed] the special nature of the Russia-China partnership," but “signed a statement on deepening the strategic partnership and bilateral ties which...
Vladimir Putin vs. The International Criminal Court
by Ted Snider | Mar 29, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On March 17, the International Criminal Court issued a warrant of arrest for Russian President Vladimir Putin as a war criminal for allegedly deporting and transferring children from Ukraine to Russia. The 1946 Nuremburg Tribunal declared that, “To initiate a war of...
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A Response to My Memorial Day Critics
My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...
Ignoring Political Gossip & Sticking to Principle
https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...
The Myth of “Hyper-Rugged-Isolationist-Individualism”
Myth #1: Libertarians believe that each individual is an isolated, hermetically sealed atom, acting in a vacuum without influencing each other. This is a common charge, but a highly puzzling one. In a lifetime of reading libertarian and classical-liberal...
The Lesson From Germany and Korea
Institutions are, of course, in some sense the products of culture. But, because they formalize a set of norms, institutions are often the things that keep a culture honest, determining how far it is conducive to good behaviour rather than bad. To illustrate the...
Occupational Licensing Increases Prices and Deprives People of Options
When you shop online, vendors usually give you a bunch of different ways to sort your options. Take Amazon: One popular sorting option – especially for customers with low income – is “Price: Low to High.” You’ve probably used it yourself many times. This...
Free Book: An Anarchist Critique of the COVID Mandates
I’ve had the opportunity to write a short book offering what is essentially an anarchist critique of COVID mandates. This includes the accusation that states did most of the killing rather than the virus. The 123-page book, Measuring the Mandates: Questioning the...
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