War and Foreign Policy

In a free society, you should never have to register your child or your gun.

Jeff Deist and Daniel McAdams discuss how ordinary people can reclaim the narrative from those who recklessly expand US intervention in Syria and Iran.

China's ruling class often reminds us of our own. Not that the editors at Time have enough self-awareness to notice.

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.