War and Foreign Policy

"To recognize that the Baghdadi government is an enemy of the United States is to acknowledge that not only was the Iraq war a mistake, but that its outcome was a boon for Iran."

John Maynard Keynes's stance on German reparations in the wake of the First World War may have precipitated the rise of Hitler.

Despite its supposedly strained relationship with the Saudi regime, the Obama administration, for example, still managed to offer the royals of that kingdom a record $136 billion in US weapons between 2009 and 2017.

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel joins Bob Murphy for an in-depth discussion of the economics of slavery, touching on subtleties such as the labor/leisure trade-off, and the recent claims by some historians that slavery was efficient.

Daniel McAdams speaks at the 2019 Ron Paul Symposium in Lake Jackson, Texas.

School children learn that there are three branches of government. In actual practice, there is a fourth branch, the permanent bureaucracy which includes legions of civilian and military agents, officers, and administrators committed to protecting their own interests.

Even The New York Times now admits there is a deep state — and that it serves its own agenda while ignoring the elected civilian government.

In the 19th century, the common view of federal soldiers was "as slackers on the public dole" and people with "such a lazy life," as to be "certainly not worth their country's crying about."

Scott Horton speaks at the 2019 Ron Paul Symposium in Lake Jackson, Texas.

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.