Edwin S. Corwin in The President: Office and Powers, 1878-1957 has argued that the Constitution is a tussle for control between the executive and legislature. It is, he claims, “an invitation to struggle for the privilege of directing American foreign policy.”
A past article, presenting a “libertarian” viewpoint of nuclear weapons, has two choices, but pointedly leaves out a third choice: nuclear disarmament. According to Murray Rothbard, disarmament is the only true moral choice and also the most practical.
Historian Chris Calton joins Ryan McMaken to discuss both the upsides and the downsides of Trump's first 100 days.
The first 100 days of the second Trump administration have made it clear that those who want the foreign policy status quo to continue are serious about doing what it takes to accomplish their goals, while those who want to change it are not.
South Vietnam ceased to exist as a separate country 50 years ago. What followed was an object lesson on the failures of socialism, as Marxist ideology turned Vietnam into one of the world's poorest countries. Vietnam‘s “second revolution” was successfully embracing a market economy.
The first 100 days of the second Trump administration have made it clear that those who want the foreign policy status quo to continue are serious about doing what it takes to accomplish their goals, while those who want to change it are not.
While focusing on the Holocaust, people often forget the economic fallacies of the Third Reich. Hitler‘s policies were based upon socialism and state control, and no regime can prosper under those conditions.
While most of Japan‘s politicians have backed Ukraine in the war with Russia, nonetheless, at least one legislator is willing to see things differently. Suzuki Muneo explains his views in this interview.
While establishment historians claim that the British government had no intentions of depriving American colonists of their liberties, actual history tells a different story. Things came to a head April 19, 1775, touching off the American Revolution.
When constituting what a “well-regulated militia,” looks like, look no further than the first armed conflict of the War of the Revolution.
