With the Biden-Blinken foreign policy regime coming to a close, a clear-eyed analysis of this legacy is required. Pushing past partisan rhetoric and independent of the potential policy wins in a second Trump term, Joe Biden and Anthony Blinken were unqualifiedly terrible for American foreign policy, both from neo-conservative and realist perspectives.

In his article, “Why the War Was Not About Slavery,” Clyde Wilson distinguishes between history and political ideology, arguing that: “Conventional wisdom tells us that the great war of 1861-1865 was ‘about’ slavery or was ‘caused by’ slavery.

Why has the United States’ government become so politically dysfunctional?

[This article is an adapted selection from “Bureaucracy and the Civil Service in the United States.”]

I have long argued that Austrian economics should be developed not as an alternative to the current academic discipline of economics but as a replacement for it.  We will know that this goal has been achieved when the modifier “Austrian” is no longer used to designate the economics of Mises and Rothbard and it is called simply “economics.” In the meantime, however, a significant and gratifying movement toward this long-term goal of establishing Austrian economics as the 

Earlier this week, Donald Trump signed a new executive order which attempts to end so-called “birthright citizenship” in the United States. During the signing ceremony, Trump declared that the United States is “the only country in the world that does this with birthright…”

This is untrue and the Washington Post, among other publications, was quick to declare that Trump “falsely claimed” that the US is the only country with birthright citizenship, also known as the legal principle of unrestricted—or “pure”—jus soli.