In “Nations by Consent,” Murray Rothbard explains that because libertarians tend to view the world through either the lens of the state or of the individual, they miss out on one of the most important aspects of the real world: the nation. Due to the common use of the terms nation and state interchangeably, we often forget what a nation really is. Rothbard reminds us, however, that

Many are dismayed that the American military and intelligence complex has gone woke.

There already exists literature dealing with common objections to anarcho-capitalism (a society with private ownership of everything) such as who will build the roads, how security and national defense would be produced, etc. (see specially the works of Hans-Hermann Hoppe on security/defense and Walter Block on privatization of everything).

The top seller on Amazon for books devoted to war and peace as of this writing, Scott Horton’s newest offering, Hotter than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, is a timely must read. As Washington barrels heedlessly along into Cold War II, the American public badly needs educating on the current risks, past close calls, and the utter insanity of an entire for-profit industry built on the flawed concept of thousands of thermonuclear bombs as “weapons” that keep us safe.