There’s No Place like Noam
Noam Chomsky's latest offering—a series of interviews—presents the best (and worst) of one of America's premier public intellectuals.
War and Foreign Policy
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How the Dollar Became the World’s Top Global Currency
The dollar became the dominant global currency not so much because of its own merits, but because of the self-destruction of the pound sterling caused by the British state and central bank.
Rothbard Was Right: Wars Don’t Enhance Freedom. They Destroy Liberty.
We hear ad nauseum from political and media elites that the war in Ukraine is about preserving "our freedoms." Murray Rothbard had something to say about this sophistry.
The US Followed a Policy of Foreign Intervention Long before World War II
One of the great fictions of US history is that the USA's foreign policy was based on noninterventionism until the nation was forced to enter World War II.
The Ukraine War Isn’t about Democracy. It’s about States Seeking More Power.
The fight between Russia and NATO is not about "democracy versus authoritarianism." Rather both the US and Russian states are doubling down because they are doing what states do: seeking power.
NATO’s Great New Idea: “Let’s Start a War with China!”
Last week NATO announced that it will open its first-ever Asia office in Japan. What next, NATO membership for Taiwan?
Rothbard’s Button Doesn’t Exist, but It Needs to Be Invented
In 1948, Ludwig Erhardt rescued a German economy that was in shambles simply by invoking free markets and currency reform. Our economy needs its Rothbard moment.
Washington Has No Moral Authority to Ban Guns
Another mass shooting, another call for gun control. However, when it comes to mass killings, Washington sets the sorry example.
Waco 30 Years Later: It Is Not an Atrocity if the Feds Do It
Today is the 30th anniversary of the Waco Massacre in which the media and the government self-congratulated each other in absolving the FBI of any crimes. Nothing has changed since then.
Will a New BRICS Currency Change Anything? Maybe
As the US government debases the dollar, other nations take notice and possibilities increase that another currency based on sound principles might emerge.
