H.W. Brands' America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War is an informative and well-needed account of the vitriolic debates that preceded American entry into the Second World War. Brands's treatment is a welcomed addition to a field that, since the...
“You could drop Hillary into any trouble spot, come back in a month and…she will have made it better,” former President Bill Clinton declared in a 2016 speech championing his wife’s presidential candidacy. But Hillary’s entry into the brawls surrounding the 2024...
On Tuesday, September 17, Lebanon experienced one of the most widespread terrorist attacks in history. All at once, pagers across the south of the country indicated they had received a message and then exploded. As of Tuesday night it was said fourteen people were...
On September 11, the Chicago Tribune published an op-ed by the director of the Asia Engagement Program at Defense Priorities and director of the China Initiative at Brown University, Dr. Lyle Goldstein, on the need for Washington to work to improve its relations with...
https://youtu.be/XWGl_VvbF5E The leading source of happiness is pleasant social interaction. - Dr. Bryan Caplan, Self-Help Is Like a Vaccine: Essays on Living Better Book discussed: Self-Help Is Like a Vaccine: Essays on Living Better: https://a.co/d/iEhSSMw As a...
From around the middle of the twentieth century, federal agencies tasked with law enforcement, intelligence gathering, and various types of “defense” have accrued overwhelming power in the United States. Democrats, who now worship such agencies, may wail at the term...
Hunter Biden pled guilty on Thursday to a barrage of federal tax crimes. But will the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department ever plead guilty to stealing the 2020 election for Joe Biden? In 2023, the IRS assessed 18,599,109 penalties on individuals who...
Download Episode. Scott interviews Lyle Goldstein about the return of Cold War conditions between the U.S. and its nuclear-armed adversaries. They discuss the Biden administration’s nuclear strategy pivot, the danger of what’s happening with North Korea, the...
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...
