The people making foreign policy are not disinterested servants of some objectively identifiable “national interest.” They are people and interest groups that respond to incentives and self-interest like everyone else.
Lifting sanctions on Russian diesel may provide Americans a little relief from high energy prices. The same economic logic applies to the thousands of other sanctions Washington continues to enforce.
John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute talks with Lew Rockwell about his book Against the State.
Frightened citizens in wartime tend to demand even more centralization and state power in the name of protection. However, the centralized state can never deliver what they want.
Lifting sanctions on Russian diesel may provide Americans a little relief from high energy prices. The same economic logic applies to the thousands of other sanctions Washington continues to enforce.
From new wars to vaccine mandates, we're told to trust the government because the government supposedly has special knowledge inaccessible to mere ordinary citizens. This is just a form of government propaganda.
As debt, inflation, and war erode trust in Washington, Mark Thornton argues that real reform must come from the bottom up—not from the political establishment.
Swiss politicians are thinking of ending Switzerland's long-held policy of neutrality. Why ruin what has been a good thing?
The intellectuals did not merely support the war. They had been waiting for it.
World War I did not interrupt the American corporate state. It built it.
