War and Foreign Policy

On the eve of World War II, Keynes delivered a chilling address on the BBC, talking about the "great experiment" of curing unemployment through war expenditure.

Years after his death, more students and scholars than ever are reading and building on the work of Murray Rothbard. Meanwhile, the Conservative movement that so often attacked him is quickly vanishing.

People are not supposed to notice that every terrorist attack represents a major government failure and that rewarding failure with more of the same policies only invites more failure.

Terrorism gripped the headlines again as terrorists struck Brussels, but this latest colossal security failure for Europe and the West is not likely to lead to an evaluation of the value of state security.

Recessions are good for an economy because they involve a resolution process, but a big recession for this boom town could be great for the world economy.

Pointing out the follies of Western foreign policy is not to apologize for Islamic radicals. It is simply to point toward a way that the West could make a positive impact in favor of ordinary Westerners right now, with the added benefit of being morally correct as well.

Doing Bad by Doing Good is an accessible treatment of a major foreign-policy problem from a perspective solidly grounded in the tradition of Austrian economic thought.

The capital city of NATO and the European Parliament, the city of Brussels is a prime target for the radicals that the elites of Brussels and Washington helped create.

This incident is one more example that demonstrates the contempt with which the US government holds private companies. Private companies are literally being conscripted to serve the state.

Mass democracy, as its nineteenth-century liberal opponents foretold, devolves into a contest of contending forces, motivated by corrupt self interest.