War and Foreign Policy

Professor Brzezinski displays in this book an inordinate fondness for intellectual games. A minor and forgivable weakness, you might think. 

Two freedom advocates square off on school vouchers.

U.S. policies on Iraq are inhumane and destructive of freedom. 

Mr. Zakaria finds a paradox at the heart of American foreign policy in the latter part of the nineteenth century.

The U.S. is fudging its rationale for bombing a medicine plant in Sudan.

An essay by Paul Fussell explains the meaning of Spielberg's new film on war.

Much of this moving book lies outside the scope of The Mises Review. The Unabomber selected Mr. Gelernter as a target; and in June 1993, a package exploded in his office at Yale University. 

You don't have to be a believer in the conspiracy theory of history to feel suspicious about the provenance of Mr. Haass's book. Its publisher is the Council on Foreign Relations, long familiar to "right-wing extremists" as the center of the foreign policy 

Among the conventional weapons in the arsenal of the modern Warfare State, none is crueler or more indiscriminate than economic sanctions. While a bomb, missile, or other military ordnance can devastate an entire neighborhood in a moment, the slow death of economic strangulation can so degrade an entire people that they are reduced to a pre-civilizational state, modern savages living at a subsistence level.

The Free Market 16, no. 2 (February 1998)