War and Foreign Policy

Sticking to Cold War–era assumptions is a recipe for a suboptimal foreign policy, which could increase the probability of the US stumbling into a disastrous war of choice.

The United States is not now—and has never been—in any position to lecture other countries about the moral evils of aggressive foreign policy.

The Ukraine crisis arrives in the middle of an evident slowdown of the largest economies after the placebo effect of massive stimulus plans has already worn off.

Even as the USA seeks to expand NATO while it escalates tensions with Russia, the organization is facing internal pressures as some member nations do not agree with Washington's saber-rattling agenda.

A world of socialist nations would be a world of ceaseless war. Here's why.

What US policymakers should do in the interest of the American people is obvious: stay home, save lives.

Ryan and Tho discuss Taiwan policy with Zachary Yost, author of a new paper on the prospects of a Mainland Chinese takeover of Taiwan.

The French Revolution is a large and complex event worthy of a Gibbon, but it may not have happened at all if the French monarchy had balanced its budget.

Robert Taft fought military conscription in 1946, stating, "If adopted, it will color our whole future. We shall have fought to abolish totalitarianism in the world, only to set it up in the United States."

The saddest part of this whole manufactured crisis is that it should make absolutely no difference to us whether Russia controls Ukraine. How is that a threat to the United States?