War and Foreign Policy

Robert Higgs demolishes many of the popular misconceptions about — and justifications for — the state.

Murray Rothbard suggested that non-state insurgents were preferable to state-operated militaries. But can non-state armies ever succeed?

The greatest threat to American safety is the actions of its own government.

The Sacrifice of July 1, 1916. The first day of the Battle of the Somme was a human disaster.

June 22, 1941 marks the day that friends of Stalin in the West were finally able to portray their hero as an anti-Nazi hero for the world.

The whole point of national self-determination is to get top-down coercive power out of the picture.

A hundred years ago, the crisis of the war was forging a new world organized around war itself.

Jeff Deist makes the case that the real issues confronting us are war and peace, central banking, and state power—not inequality or racism or sexism.

The war left the central government more powerful than ever, and the states, which had traditionally curbed federal power, in danger of total eclipse.

Pat Buchanan's "America First" economic writings in defense of protectionism are wrongheaded, and often historically inaccurate.