War and Foreign Policy

No matter how legitimate the reasons might seem for going to war, the results are always horrific, and wars rarely, if ever, accomplish their stated purposes.

No matter how legitimate the reasons might seem for going to war, the results are always horrific, and wars rarely, if ever, accomplish their stated purposes.

"Free markets at home, empire abroad" isn't just incoherent—it's arithmetically impossible. Connor O'Keeffe on why you can't fund the warfare state without the income tax and the Fed.

When Vladimir Putin took power in Russia, the nation had a potentially bright future. Today, bogged down in war and its economy approaching Third World status, the future doesn’t look very good.

The US government continues to drag down the economy with its reckless wars and massive debt accumulation. On the other side of the globe, China is pursuing a different path.

Colonel Douglas Macgregor holds up a mirror to the West and uses his deep historical knowledge and personal experience of previous conflicts to clearly demonstrate the parallels, the motivations and the dynamics that are still in place and dictate policy to this day.

The US government continues to drag down the economy with its reckless wars and massive debt accumulation. On the other side of the globe, China is pursuing a different path.

Mark Thornton examines the rise of democratic socialism, the political realignment it may trigger, and why young Americans are embracing bad solutions to real problems.

Mark Thornton warns that war propaganda turns citizens into dupes. Ludwig von Mises’s critique of statism explains why foreign conflicts keep returning.

Liberalism applied to world affairs: national self-determination, free trade and freedom of movement as the foundations of peace, and critiques of nationalism, imperialism, and colonialism.