The Wisdom of Herbert Butterfield
Herbert Butterfield, who taught history at Cambridge, had many insights on the sea changes brought about by World War I and the collapse of the Old World Order. The new…
Barriers to Energy Supply Are Everywhere—Let’s Get Serious about Permitting Reform
Travis Fisher and Josh Loucks Just north of Boston in Everett, Massachusetts sits the poster child for irrational energy permitting in the United States. The Everett Marine Terminal is a…
Trump Proposes to Socialize IVF
Jeffrey A. Singer On August 29, at a town hall in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told the audience, “I’m announcing today in a major statement that…
From the Editor—July / August 2024
The federal government uses wars as excuses to eviscerate American freedoms, spend trillions of dollars and rack up gargantuan deficits that will impose a heavy financial burden for decades to…
The Regime’s Wars Are Built on Lies
Ukraine and Israel are current boutique wars of choice, connected to and very much like those the U.S. government pursued for profit and show in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya…
American Imperialism and Our Bipartisan Warfare State
The growth of the state through war included not only developing new technologies for making war, but also coming up with new financial techniques such as inflation and other wealth…
Wisdom from Our Anti-War Libertarian Forerunners
From its earliest decades, the defenders of freedom — known historically as “classical liberals,” “radicals,” and “libertarians,” have sought to reduce and limit the war-making powers of the state. Here…
Why Military Conscription Is Worse Than Slavery
If the government can conscript you into its army, can cause your death or mutilation in some war that has nothing to do with national defense, and can execute you…
Evil? Maybe. Crazy? Don’t Bet On It.
Mearsheimer and Rosato make an interesting case for dictators, however evil we may consider them, that they are in fact acting in a rational way.
Don’t Court the Court Intellectuals
Like Murray Rothbard, Solis-Mullen is fully aware of the dangers posed by court intellectuals, who defend positions that will give them power and wealth. China is simply the new trough.