War and Foreign Policy

This talk was delivered to the Auburn University Libertarians on February 16, 2006.

Don’t you just love the term “engagement” when it is used in the context of US relations with the world?

The single most frustrating thing about being an economist, writes Robert Murphy, is that, 200+ years after its official birth, the field of economics hasn't convinced the rest of the world about even its most elementary propositions.

A book-length manuscript based on notes taken by Bettina B. Greaves during the Mises Seminar in New York in the 1960s. 

If you want to make a geek laugh derisively, writes Jeffrey Tucker, suggest that responsibility for computer security be turned over to the government.

William McBride, a leading authority on Sartre’s philosophy, looks at John Rawls’s theory of justice from an unusual angle. He calls attention to the seldom-cited last paragraph of A Theory of Justice.

Robert Higgs has a well-deserved reputation as an eminent economic historian, but in this collection of essays and interviews, he shows himself an adept moral philosopher as well. 

f there is such a thing as a good super hawk, Angelo Codevilla is it. He makes many neoconservatives look like pacifists; and he advocates a dangerous course of action, accompanied by quotations from Machiavelli,