War and Foreign Policy

In the days following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, many Americans reacted with panic.

Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Summer Seminar Series in Auburn, Alabama, on 31 May 2004. 

Grant Nülle discusses a form of outsourcing that is unproductive, costly, and warlike.

The first World War might also be called the war that never ends, writes Ralph Raico.

Claes Ryn’s thoughtful book might have been written as a brilliant counter to An End to Evil, reviewed elsewhere in this issue. The book exactly diagnoses the cast of mind on display in that blueprint for perpetual war.

The Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq provides one further confirmation, if any were needed, of Randolph Bourne’s dictum, "war is the health of the state." 

In the days following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, many Americans reacted with panic. Were the attacks the beginning of a war that would imperil the lives of millions in our country?

Mises, in his great 1944 work on national socialism, examines the ideology of Nazi anti-Semitism and its inextricable link to anti-capitalism.

Lew Rockwell agrees with Richard Clarke: "Your government failed you"--in many more ways than he is willing to admit.

Industry concentration is not usually a problem in the free market, writes Christopher Mayer. But the banking industry is hardly free.