Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
Since the first assault on Turkey’s finances in 2018, which I wrote about multiple times (here, here, and here), I’ve been the lone voice telling everyone that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a lunatic but he’s a lunatic with a plan. That plan is to de-dollarize the...
Virtue signaling—the practice of highlighting what one takes to be one’s own moral superiority, often by loudly denouncing the character and comportment, including the speech, of other people—has become a dominant mode of rhetoric throughout social media and network...
I’ve attended most of the major antiwar protests in Washington since 9/11. At a 2005 protest, a cop tried to whack me on the head with a wooden pole. At a 2007 protest, I snapped a picture showing George W. Bush hanging next to the U.S. Capitol. But my favorite...
50 Minutes Suitable For All Ages Patrick Newman is a Professor of economics at Florida Southern College and a Mises Institute Fellow. He is the author of the new book, "Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849." Patrick comes back on the show to talk...
"How did, as Hudson puts it, “America’s ideal of implementing laissez-faire economic institutions, political democracy, and a dismantling of formal empires and colonial systems” turn into a system where the U.S. forced other nations to pay for its wars, defaulted on...
Jack announced this was postponed - will be rescheduled Jack Murphy will interview Dave at 11:30 AM Eastern. You can watch at Jack's youtube channel. Jack is a critic of libertarians but unlike many critics on the right he actually has an understanding of libertarian...
Liberty and antiwar folk take note: The Pentagon recently announced that the U.S. Army has awarded Pfizer a $3.5 billion contract for the production of 500 million doses of Covid19 vaccine to be distributed worldwide. Mike Church and I discuss this development, along...
