Of course “principles,” phrases, and catch-words are always invented to bolster up any policy which anybody wants to recommend. So in this case. The people who have led us on to shut ourselves in, and who now want us to break out, warn us against the terrors of...
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12/21/23 Angela McArdle on How the Libertarian Party is Opposing the War State
Download Episode. Libertarian Party Chair Angela McArdle returns to the show to talk about the upcoming antiwar rally and the broader antiwar strategy of the Party. She shares the plans in the works for a second Rage Against the War Machine rally in Washington DC...
11/9/23 Joseph Solis-Mullen Debunks the Fake China Threat
Download Episode. Joseph Solis-Mullen joins the show to discuss his new book about China. He and Scott work through some of the most common talking points meant to make the American people fear a noninterventionist approach with China. They also cite a number of...
TGIF: The Glorious Bourgeois Peace Movement
Those of us whose pro-peace/antiwar principles are of the bourgeois classical-liberal variety need reminding now and again that we have a glorious tradition going back hundreds of years. We need not get lost in the dominant rhetoric that opposes war, empire, and its...
7/20/23 Patrick MacFarlane on the Truth About Oppenheimer
Download Episode. Patrick MacFarlane joins the show to discuss his new docuseries, The Truth About Oppenheimer. MacFarlane talks about the project and some of his sources. They then compare the version of Oppenheimer, and the Manhattan Project, with the portrayal in...
TGIF: Foreign Policy Matters
In an extra special way, foreign policy matters crucially to champions of individual liberty. Not that it doesn't matter to other people too -- just not in all the same ways. Anyone who understands the importance of keeping government power strictly limited in...
TGIF: Condemning Tyranny Abroad and War
Can foreign-policy noninterventionists publicly criticize foreign tyrannies without giving credence to the war party? Yes -- if they try. At least I hope so. Being a noninterventionist does not require agnosticism about, much less approval of, despotic regimes. U.S....
3/10/23 Bonnie Kristian: What does a Ron DeSantis Foreign Policy Look Like?
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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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...
