Haha. If you've got the patience, check out Cathy Young and Reason magazine's ridiculous attack on Ron Paul and Antiwar.com to go along with a giant steaming pile of Tom Palmer horseshit about the most dangerous threat to libertarianism -- Tsar Vlad the Terrible of...
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Bacevich: The “Global Order” Myth
Andrew Bacevich has (another) must-read piece, "The ‘Global Order’ Myth." It's a great article, although I think he gives too much credit to Trump and has too benign a view of the pre-1945 American state. But don't let that keep you away. Bacevich eviscerates those...
The Truth About The Social Contract
Where does the state come from? Political theory says that it rises out of the general will of a population, and that its character reflects their political desires: a "social contract" that legitimizes its authority. Recently, Ted Cruz made news when he responded to...
The Pitfalls of “Self-Defense” in International Politics
I was just in Okinawa, relaxing at a beach cafe, when my peace was suddenly disturbed. A couple of F-15s - these belonging not to the US Air Force, but rather to the Japanese Air Self-Defense Forces - flew overhead. They were thundering off to go slay dragons,...
How Nationalism and Socialism Arose from the French Revolution
In 1755, the Portuguese city of Lisbon was struck by a massive, deadly earthquake. As Deirdre McCloskey recently wrote, in the century that followed, three big ideas swept through Europe that would also shake the world. One of those ideas was fantastically fruitful,...
I Won’t Let the State Choose My Friends or Enemies for Me
“I reject the right of the government to choose my friends and enemies for me.” – Bill Kelsey Indeed, Bill, it makes no sense to allow the government to do so. But the situation is much worse than such nonsensical allowance by the people at large. From time...
TGIF: The Religion of the State
In 1912 the pioneering French sociologist Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) published The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, which presented his findings (not without controversy) on primitive clan-based religious culture. Durkheim sought to identify the nature of religion...
Terror War Tech Comes Home
Welcome Aboard, But First US Marshals Will Scan Your Retina For some 15 years, airport security has become steadily more invasive. There are ever more checkpoints, ever more requests for documents as you make your way from the airport entrance to the airplane....
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