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7/22/22 Kyle Anzalone on the Ukraine-Russia Grain Deal and the Evolving State of the War

by Scott Horton | Jul 25, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. Kyle Anzalone is back this week on Antiwar Radio to update us on all things Ukraine. Anzalone explains the grain deal both sides reached after Turkey hosted negotiations. If honored, the deal is expected to free up 22 million tons of wheat. Next,...

7/22/22 Doug Bandow on Biden’s Saudi Trip and Awful Middle East Policy

by Scott Horton | Jul 23, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. Scott talks with Cato Institute Senior Fellow Doug Bandow about an article he wrote recently for The American Conservative. Bandow gives his take on Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia. He thinks the Saudis were purposefully disrespectful to the U.S....

7/21/22 Hassan El-Tayyab on the Yemen Ceasefire, Biden’s Saudi Trip and a Second War Powers Resolution

by Scott Horton | Jul 22, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. Hassan El-Tayyab is back with a big update on the effort to end U.S. support for the war in Yemen. There are now War Powers Resolutions in each chamber of Congress, and momentum is building. El-Tayyab points to some concerning developments...

The Patent, an Enemy of Innovation

by Dakota Hensley | Jul 21, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles

The foundation of our economy is the patent. If you invent something, you need a patent. We assume that without patent law, society would be stuck in an economic malaise. We'd be stuck in the Dark Ages. However, that isn't true. The opposite is. Patents hold our...

The Anti-Morality of the Coercive Monopoly

by Kym Robinson | Jul 18, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

There are two ideological camps that matter: those who believe that coercion is required to achieve their means and those who believe in cooperation through voluntary interactions. History and the contemporary world has been defined by the bloodshed of the ideology of...

7/15/22 Patrick MacFarlane on Adrian Zenz and the ‘Xinjiang Police Files’

by Scott Horton | Jul 17, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. This week on Antiwar Radio, Scott is joined by Patrick MacFarlane to discuss the narrative that China is conducting a genocide against the Uyghurs of Xinjiang, its westernmost region. The narrative has become prominent over the past few years,...

TGIF: Social Order through Liberty

by Sheldon Richman | Jul 15, 2022 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF

Human beings are self-actualizing social animals. We need to cooperate with others to flourish fully and (but?) we also need the freedom to make of ourselves the persons we wish to be; we need autonomy. Can we do both liberty and social order? The answer is yes, and...

7/8/22 Kyle Anzalone on Recent Developments in Ukraine

by Scott Horton | Jul 11, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. This week on Antiwar Radio, Kyle Anzalone of the Libertarian Institute and Antiwar.com joins Scott to discuss the status of the war in Ukraine. Anzalone explains how fighting has evolved in the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine. He then moves down...

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The US Navy Does the Right Thing: At Last

This is the first US Navy decision I can get behind in years. The US Navy just cancelled its Constellation class frigate program because it is absolutely incapable of building hulls and ships that work. They have not launched a successful surface ship since 1991 with...

If Wishes Were Buses

Like a major air disaster that leaves blackened wreckage scattered far and wide, Zohran Mamdani’s New York collision with reality hurtles ahead. The mayor-elect has once again put on display a key reason that catastrophe is inevitable. It is worse than just...

The Kyle Anzalone Show: Israel Ramps Up Push to Annex West Bank

A ceasefire that looks good on paper means little when people are living under lockdowns and raids. We open with the West Bank, where daily operations near schools and reports of soldiers quartering in homes reshape civilian life and hollow out the promise of...

What’s Wrong with Young People?

A former Obama speechwriter faulted young people for having the faculty of abstraction when thinking about the Holocaust, genocide, Israel, and the Palestinians.

Abdicating Responsibility: Education

I discuss how sending children to public school is abdication of responsibility and read the seven purposes of school from Dumbing us Down.

Orwell on Socialists

"The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which ’we’, the clever ones, are going to impose upon ’them’, the Lower Orders."...