Yesterday President Joe Biden announced he’s “forgiving” up to $20,000 of student loan debt per student, totalling over $300 billion dollars. Poof, it’s gone! And where does the president find the authority for such a large, spontaneous action? Well, it’s another gift...
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As Faith in the Regime Wanes, So Does Military Recruitment
by Ryan McMaken | Aug 25, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
The U.S. Army reports it is having some serious problems when it comes to recruiting new soldiers. Last month, according to the AP: “Army officials…said the service will fall about 10,000 soldiers short of its planned end strength for this fiscal year, and prospects...
NATO Abandons Diplomacy, Says No Longer ‘At Peace’
by Bas Spliet | Aug 23, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
At the end of its annual summit in Madrid in late June, NATO adopted a new strategic concept. The guidance document is the eighth of its kind since the founding of the alliance in 1949. It radically breaks with the three previous post-Cold War security briefs,...
Veteran Says Good Riddance to Liz Cheney
by Bring Our Troops Home | Aug 17, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Yesterday was a very important day. It’s the day the America First movement exiled the most despicable, most debased Swamp Monster on Capitol Hill. Yesterday Liz Cheney lost renomination for Congress after three terms of using and abusing the people of Wyoming. The...
Attention Fellow Philosophers: The Protestant Libertarian Podcast
by Laurie Calhoun | Aug 17, 2022 | Blog, Foreign Policy
On a recent episode of The Protestant Libertarian Podcast, Alex Bernardo and Laurie Calhoun discuss the MIC, its cultish features, the war on terror, Ukraine, war propaganda, and what to do about all of it. This relatively new podcast also has episodes on Ludwig...
In Rebuke of the Dishonorable David Petraeus
by Shane McCarver | Aug 16, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In a recent article for The Atlantic David Petraeus came to the conclusion that American soldiers should still be in Afghanistan today. Two thousand, three hundred twenty-four American servicemen killed, $2.3 trillion dollars and over 20 years later convicted criminal...
Public Choice ‘Conspiracy Theory’ and the Illusion of Grand Strategy
by John Weeks | Aug 11, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Murray Rothbard believed there are good conspiracy theories and bad conspiracy theories. He wrote about it for Reason Magazine in 1977. The bad ones are gratuitous claims made without evidence that tend “to wrap up all the conspiracies, all the bad guy power blocs,...
‘Coup’ Means Whatever the Regime Wants It to Mean
by Ryan McMaken | Aug 10, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
In the immediate aftermath of the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, many pundits and politicians were eager to describe the events of that day a s a coup d'etat in which the nation was "this close" to having some sort of junta void the 2020 election and take power...