Foreign Policy & War

The Spanish-American War: The Leap into Overseas Empire, Part 1

by Joseph R. Stromberg December 1, 1998

Part 1 | Part 2 The Spanish-American War, whose centennial we observe this year, was a short war, a popular war, and a rather cheap war, both in lives and money. It was, as John Hay, soon to be secretary of state, put it, "a splendid little war." It was, however, fraught with long-range consequences. As an easy, successful ...

A Libertarian Visits Mexico

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 1998

Last summer, I spent a two-week vacation studying Spanish in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. I thought that the readers of Freedom Daily might find some of my experiences to be of interest. San Miguel de Allende is located in the heart of Mexico, about three hours north of Mexico City. This is the area of Mexico where the ...

FDR – The Man, the Leader, the Legacy, Part 5

by Ralph Raico November 1, 1998

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Table of Contents As he was constitutionally mandated to do, Woodrow Wilson ...

President’s Perilous Foreign Affairs

by Sheldon Richman September 15, 1998

When President Clinton ordered air strikes against alleged terrorist facilities in Sudan and Afghanistan last August, nearly everyone wondered if he had done it to take our attention off his sex scandal. But perhaps he's using the scandal to distract us from his foreign adventurism. Many criticisms can be made about the president's White ...

Fight Socialism with Freedom in North Korea

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 1, 1998

For the last three years, up to 2 million people have died of starvation in North Korea. The U.S. government has been the biggest provider of aid, contributing 220,000 tons of food. The Clinton administration is now considering sending an additional 300,000 tons of food. American officials refer to this ...

FDR – The Man, the Leader, the Legacy, Part 4

by Ralph Raico August 1, 1998

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Table of Contents When the United States entered the First World War, ...

FDR – The Man, the Leader, the Legacy, Part 3

by Ralph Raico July 1, 1998

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Table of Contents Niccolò Machiavelli, the famous Renaissance political philosopher, had a ...

FDR – The Man, the Leader, the Legacy, Part 2

by Ralph Raico May 1, 1998

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Table of Contents Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, whom Franklin took as his wife ...

FDR – The Man, the Leader, the Legacy, Part 1

by Ralph Raico April 1, 1998

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Table of Contents As we approach the end of the 20th century, ...

Foreign Aid, Help or Hindrance? Part 2

by Doug Bandow March 1, 1998

Part 1 | Part 2 What about the argument that aid at least helps countries that are helping themselves? The Brookings Institute and World Bank researchers repair to this final redoubt, but even here there is reason for skepticism. In his preface to the latest Heritage Foundation report, President Edwin Feulner argues that one of the most important conclusions ...

Foreign Aid, Help or Hindrance? Part 1

by Doug Bandow February 1, 1998

Part 1 | Part 2 There may be no more pitiful sight than tides of impoverished and starving refugees; and there may be no greater irony than grievous want in the Third World amidst exploding possibilities in the First World. Supporters of foreign aid rely on such images in an attempt to shake more money out of seemingly tight-fisted ...

The Folly of Castro

by Sheldon Richman January 1, 1998

In any dictatorship, the biggest fool is the dictator. It takes a prodigious amount of self-deception to believe you are running a country. That occurred to me as I heard about Fidel Castro's preparations for the Pope's visit to Cuba. In an interview on Cuban television, Castro said a couple of interesting things. First, he invited ...