An unwise and overambitious foreign policy, and particularly the effort to do more than we are able to do, is the one thing which might in the end destroy our armies and prove a real threat to the liberty of the people of the United States….
There is no question that the War on Terror will last forever. Just like the War on Drugs and the War on Poverty. "War is the health of the state," as Randolph Bourne famously said.
Robert Taft, champion of a non-interventionist foreign policy and leader of the Republican resistance to post-FDR foreign policy, gave a stirring s
In this remarkable book, Glenn Greenwald solves a difficult problem. President Bush has for several years authorized the National Security Agency to wiretap telephones within the United States without a judicial warrant.
In order to slow illegal immigration, the US government is going to construct a fence along the international water boundary with Mexico.
From its founding, America has rejected the worldview of prioritizing physical safety above all else, as such a mentality leads to an impoverished and empty civic life.
National Industrial Conference Board American Affairs, Vol VII, no 1, 1945
One of the most brilliant and forceful attacks on Cold War foreign policy in the postwar era came from the pen of the veteran free-market publicist
A selection of quotes from Ernest Hemingway’s “Notes on the Next War: A Se
This scathing address delivered by Dr. Jordan at the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board, 16 May 1946, one year after the end of World War II.
