Download Episode. Bonnie Kristian returns to the show to discuss a piece she wrote examining the foreign policy beliefs of the Florida Governor and likely Presidential candidate Ron DeSantis. Kristian shares what she found and the two discuss how the struggle...
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2/10/23 Patrick MacFarlane on the Balloon Panic
Download Episode. Scott is joined by Patrick MacFarlane to talk about the alleged Chinese balloon that captured the American news cycle a week ago. MacFarlane wrote a piece for the Libertarian Institute digging into the details and arguing against the fearmongering...
10/22/22 Patrick MacFarlane on the Populist Right’s Taiwan Hypocrisy
Download Episode. Scott is joined by Patrick MacFarlane, the Justin Raimondo Fellow at the Libertarian Institute, to discuss an article he wrote recently as well as the new direction he’s taking his podcast Vital Dissent. Scott and MacFarlane first dig into the...
7/15/22 Patrick MacFarlane on Adrian Zenz and the ‘Xinjiang Police Files’
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,...
4/22/22 Ryan McMaken on Capitalism and Peace
Download Episode. Scott talks with Ryan McMaken about free markets and free trade. They begin with a discussion about the role of the Mises Institute in the push for sound money. Scott then asks McMaken about the nuances of debating capitalism vs. socialism while...
COI #135: Hawks in Dove Feathers
On COI #135, Connor Freeman – writer at the Libertarian Institute – returns to the show to discuss how the popular ‘Breaking Points’ podcast sells war under the guise of populism and nonintervention. Connor reviews the career of host Saagar Enjeti, who spent time in...
2/21/20 Sheldon Richman on the Nonintervention Principle
Sheldon Richman discusses what he calls "the nonintervention principle," a corollary of libertarianism's nonaggression principle. Richman says that in the face of those who advocate foreign intervention and regime change, libertarians have a tendency to deny the...
Younger Americans And A Foreign Policy of Restraint
In an article in The Hill, Trevor Thrall argues that younger Americans are ready to embrace a different role for the U.S. in international relationships. Poll after poll shows that Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996, and their younger siblings in Generation Z...
Blame Iran
On FPF #362, I discuss how Iran is being blamed for the attack on two cargo ships in the Gulf of Oman. There are still many actors who may have had the incentive to attack the ships, and no one who is accusing Iran of carrying out the attack has presented any evidence...
TGIF: ‘Peace Through Strength’ Is a Racket
Donald Trump has embraced the popular "peace through strength" doctrine (PTSD) with his characteristic panache: "I’m going to make our military so big, so powerful, so strong, that nobody — absolutely nobody — is gonna to mess with us," Trump says. On other occasions...
Peace Is Popular
Capitalism is essentially a scheme for peaceful nations. What the incompatibility of war and capitalism really means is that war and high civilization are incompatible. — Ludwig von Mises Peace is popular. That was Ron Paul’s message to our audience in Texas earlier...
TGIF: ‘Isolationist’ Trump Rattles His Saber
A few libertarians and other principled opponents of the warfare state assured us we likely would sleep easier with Donald Trump, rather than any neoconservative or humanitarian interventionist, in the White House. How's that working out? Not so well. I'm hoarding...
What Trump Needs to Hear About Foreign Policy
Ep. 781 of the Tom Woods Show: What Trump Needs to Hear About Foreign Policy Tom Woods invites Scott Horton back on the show to discuss Trump and foreign policy. "Some of Trump’s instincts are noninterventionist. Since there’s a good chance he’ll surround himself with...
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