Politics & Rights
Politics & Rights
An Unwinnable War?
Elan Journo August 20, 2009
The introduction to the forthcoming book, Winning the Unwinnable War: America’s Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism, which is edited by Mr. Journo and includes essays by Yaron Brook, Elan Journo, and Alex Epstein.
Politics & Rights
America’s Self-Crippled Foreign Policy
Craig Biddle August 20, 2009
Discusses the dismal state of American foreign policy and what should be done about it.
Politics & Rights
Obama’s Atomic Bomb: The Ideological Clarity of the Democratic Agenda
John David Lewis August 20, 2009
Examines America’s political climate in light of the unmistakably statist agenda emanating from Washington, and finds cause for optimism in the effect Obama is having on the minds of Americans—and cause for activism toward helping Americans to see the proper political alternative: not conservatism but capitalism.
Politics & Rights
Letters and Replies, Fall 2009
Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein answer a letter about the purpose of war versus the tactics of war.
Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Jewish Settlements and Israeli Law
John David Lewis July 29, 2009
We are hearing a lot now about Israel’s creation of “Jewish” settlements on “Palestinian land.” These settlements are created, we are often told, to extend the “apartheid state” of Israel by squeezing out the local populations and establishing a superior Jewish ruling class. Typical here is CBS News anchor Bob…
Politics & Rights, Reviews
Review: Life Without Lawyers, by Philip K. Howard
David Littel May 20, 2009
David Littel reviews Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans From Too Much Law, by Philip K. Howard.
Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
A Brief History of U.S. Farm Policy and the Need for Free-Market Agriculture
Monica Hughes May 20, 2009
Shows how the USDA has grown from a small, seemingly innocuous bureau promoting agricultural research to today’s freedom-thwarting, rights-violating, market-crushing behemoth.
Politics & Rights
Justice Holmes and the Empty Constitution
Thomas A. Bowden May 20, 2009
Examines the meaning and consequences of Oliver Wendell Holmes’s famous dissent in Lochner v. New York, showing how and why it has devastated American jurisprudence, and indicating what future jurists must grasp and do in order to begin reversing the damage.
Politics & Rights
Letters and Replies, Summer 2009
Craig Biddle replies to a letter about immigration; Kendall Bryan writes in praise of TOS; and Larry Salzman recommends a book about zoning laws.
History, Politics & Rights
Leftist Fantasy vs. the True Story of the Atomic Bombs
Craig Biddle May 2, 2009
Bill Whittle of PJTV annihilates the leftist fantasy, most recently espoused by Jon Stewart, that our atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was “immoral,” and that Harry Truman was a “war criminal.” Whittle shows that our use of the atomic bombs saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of American…