Informing the Founders: A Short History of Standing Armies in England
The founding generation harbored a deep distrust of standing armies. This flowed not only from their first-hand experience with the British, but also from arguments against permanent military forces rooted in English tradition. John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon were...
22 Years of Blowback from the USA Patriot Act
For those who remember the days and months that followed 9/11, there is an unnerving feeling of déjà vu about the Hamas attacks on Israel. The same shocking images of carnage and grief dominating the news. The same disbelief that anyone could be so hateful, so...
America’s Crisis State Goes Global
From being a nation in a permanent state of emergency, America’s crisis state has gone global. The military industrial complex, which has established itself as the “solution” to all of our worldly problems (at taxpayer expense, of course), has mired the nation in...