Foreign Policy
War: A Tool For Politicians to Centralize Power
War is a vehicle for federal power. Wars and threats of war create opportunities for the federal government to centralize military, economic, and political authority. This is clearly laid out in Walter Karpโs absorbing book The Politics of War: The Story of Two Wars...
Will Latest Foreign Policy Executive Orders Drive the Country to More War?
In the wee hours of the morning on Nov 9, 2016, as the returns from Wisconsin and Pennsylvania indicated a Trump victory, a wave of shock crashed over American politics. Then there was a second wave of astonishment in the wake that election night victory: the...
America’s Plunge from Republic to Empire
Wendy McElroy, Future of Freedom Foundation It is difficult to pinpoint the moment at which America crossed from Republic into Empire but guidelines exist for doing so. In his treatise Rise of Empire (1952), the libertarian journalist Garet Garrett declared the โfirst...
U.S. Government Limits Your Access to Firearms While Selling Weapons Around the World
When politicians pass laws reducing our right to keep and bear arms they do so citing safety, crime, or the disutility of the arms themselves. Yet, the United States government has no problem selling large numbers of heavy weapons to foreign countries, terrorists, and...