By: Gary D. Barnett “The history of guy is merely the history of slavery, of oppression and brutality, together with the ways by which he has, through the dead and desolate years, gradually and painfully advanced. He has actually been the sport and prey of priest and king, the food of superstition and harsh might. […]
Having been lied into war in Iraq in 2003, the American public swore it had wised up. Sure, it went on to falter by supporting the Libya intervention, itself prefaced by lies, and supported the government’s intervention in the civil war in Syria (or a minimum of didn’t mind it), even though the United States […]
The stock-in-trade of all Socialist authors is the idea that there is potential plenty and that the substitution of socialism for capitalism would make it possible to give to everybody “according to his needs.” Other authors want to bring about this paradise by a reform of the monetary and credit system. As they see it, […]
“I discover a hundred thousand sorrows touching my heart, and there is a ringing in my ears, like an admonition eternal, an insistent call, ‘It needs to not be again! It should not be once again!’” stated a tearful President Warren G. Harding in Might 1921, as 5,212 wooden caskets with the remains of American […]
As you would expect from brain-dead Biden and the people managing him, American policy has been relocating the incorrect instructions. Whatever you think about the scenario in the Ukraine, one thing is obvious. It’s a crisis. Should not we try to avoid of threat? Rather, the US has actually led the way in enforcing extreme […]
The preeminence of the capitalist system consists in the fact that it is the only system of social cooperation and division of labor which makes it possible to apply a method of reckoning and computation in planning new projects and appraising the usefulness of the operation of those plants, farms, and workshops already working. The […]
Review of Michael Kulikowski, Imperial Victory: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine (London: Profile Books, 2016) and Imperial Disaster: From Constantine’s Empire to the Destruction of Roman Italy (London: Profile Books, 2019) When English historian Edward Gibbon composed his history of “the decrease and fall of the Roman Empire” in the late eighteenth century, […]
Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has actually been making headlines recently as the presidential race in the Philippines runs ever more detailed towards the 2022 elections in May. On the regional level, at the time of this writing, he keeps a commanding lead in polls and viewpoint studies despite opting out of public arguments versus other […]
With President Joe Biden’s nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the US Supreme Court, the normal suspects are weighing in with the normal rhetoric about the prospect. In nominating Jackson, who is black, Biden stated: I believe it’s time that we have a court that shows the full skills and success of our nation with […]
Late in 2015, US secretary of state Anthony Blinken declared that “One nation does not deserve to apply a sphere of influence. That notion must be relegated to the dustbin of history.” His words were directed at Russia after Moscow increasingly made it clear that it thinks about Ukraine to be part of Russia’s “near […]
