War and Foreign Policy

Totalitarian bureaucracy necessitates a constant state of crisis and there is no better creator of crises than imperial machinations.

History has shown that prosperity is built through economic freedom and self-reliance—not through perpetual financial transfers from former colonial powers.

In this week‘s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Jim Downs, who exposes the high death rates from disease suffered by newly-freed slaves because of neglect by Union armies.

It seems that the EU leaders have decided on a new military spending spree. To pay for this, the EU will issue new war debt on top of its current high debt loads.

For the first time since the war began, a senior US official criticized Ukraine’s use of conscripts.

For the first time since the war began, a senior US official criticized Ukraine’s use of conscripts. This is overdue, as conscription is one of the worst tyrannies a government can impose on the people under it, and Americans have now been forced to support it for years.

An end to Ukraine’s suffering requires a realistic deal with Putin, something that Trump at least partly understands.

While historian Walter A. McDougall was not a libertarian, nonetheless he had some Rothbardian insights on Woodrow Wilson and his reckless intervention into World War I. David Gordon notes that while McDougall‘s views on intervention were inconsistent, they still are useful.

Organized labor, which long has been the bedrock of the Democratic Party, is being courted by the MAGA Republicans trying to bolster their image with the “working classes.” But labor unions are no true friend to the working class.

The unfortunate truth is that most of Europe is deep in a self-imposed decline. US taxpayers should not be forced to have any part of it.