War and Foreign Policy

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)

The centralized, executive state makes corruption at the top a political inevitability.

Freedom Betrayed is a spirited polemic in support of a contradictory thesis.

The contributors to this outstanding volume have grasped a simple but unfashionable truth: war is a great evil. 

Free trade and peace go together; protectionism is the handmaiden of war. These were key teachings of the early classical economists, as well as the Austrians. Consistent libertarians have never doubted it. But recently the theory has come under fire from all sides—and led to dangerous coalitions pushing for the worst of all worlds, autarky and military belligerence.