Politics

Wanjiru Njoya appears on Focus Today with Perry Atkinson.

Modern historians tend to view the post-Civil War Reconstruction period as a time when the victorious northern states attempted to bring law and order to the South. However, by establishing a de facto police state, the North further poisoned relationships between whites and freed slaves.

What happens when the Department of Government Efficiency fails? Human devolution or political revolution? Or both? Mark Thornton discusses some pertinent lessons from the French Revolution.

The idea that the state can provide services and other advantages to its citizens that did not previously exist is in contrast to the arguments of state protection—a fallacy that ought to be dismissed outright.

Ryan McMaken, Tho Bishop, and Zachary Yost discuss the theory of international realism and its application to the military actions of the Russian state in Ukraine and Georgia.

With the fall of Bashir Assad‘s government, Syria becomes yet another victim to the grand plans of American and European foreign policy elites. As we saw in Iraq after the US invasion, there will be no happy ending for the Syrians.

While much attention has been devoted to the internal situation in Syria after the fall of the Assad government, another key aspect of this issue also deserves attention—Israel‘s seizure of the Golan Heights.

Damascus has fallen.

The great free-market classical liberal William Leggett believed that Americans do not need politicians telling us on which days Americans ought to be thankful.

With the demise of the Biden administration, it is time to take a hard look at the DEI programs it imposed. While divisive, simple removal will not solve underlying problems.