War and Foreign Policy
On Conscription
During America’s first great war, waged against Great Britain, the Madison Administration tried to introduce a conscription bill into Congres
The Case of David Mitchell Versus The United States
David H. Mitchell is a young man charged, and now convicted, in Federal Court with failing to report for induction into the armed forces.
Fortune and American “Idealism”
Since the days of Woodrow Wilson, American foreign policy has been conducted with a smug and self- righteous hypocrisy perhaps unmatched by any nat
D.F. Fleming on “The Origins of the Cold War”
In the statist world in which we live there is a very real tendency to accept as fact all that the official organs of propaganda emit.
World War One and the End of the Bourgeois Century
The First World War began one hundred years ago, and it was a total disaster for Europe.
Ron Paul on the Latest Anti-Russia Sanctions
From a free-market perspective, trade sanctions are always immoral and illegitimate because they restrict trade and free choice among individua
Review of Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy by Robert Higgs
This book is a collection of ten previously published essays that address some of the most important questions of twentieth-century America.
Principle and Expediency: The State Department and Palestine, 1948
According to the conventional wisdom, the United Nations in effect established the state of Israel, doing so when the General Assembly voted for th
American Isolationism, 1939-1941
The isolationist tradition in America, as it was manifested from 1939 to 1941, was based on two fundamental doctrines: avoidance of war in Europe and unimpaired freedom of action.