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Trump and Libertarians in the Political Arena

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For perhaps most self-described libertarians, supporting any politician is an uneasy exercise in bullet-biting pragmatism, premised on the idea that we ought to support the most libertarian individual in the race—even if that person is really not very libertarian. The author has, as it happens, spent years arguing against this view, suggesting that abstaining from the voting booth is a perfectly acceptable choice for the liberty contingent; and many non-voting libertarians do just that, despite the fact that a Libertarian Party has existed and run candidates since the early 70s (the Party’s first ticket featured the philosopher John Hospers and Tonie Nathan, the first woman and the first Jew to receive an electoral vote in a presidential election). For a large segment of the liberty movement, a libertarian political party has always seemed to be a contradiction in terms. Libertarians are, after all, devoted to and focused on principles, and the political process itself regrettably seems to be antithetical ...

When Did America’s Obsession with Islam Begin?

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Discussions and debate about Islam are all over America. Islam is not only a central issue in the presidential race, it is also the subject of endless discussions within the mainstream media, the educational establishment, and, of course, the Internet. Debates rage over such issues as: Are all Muslims dangerous or just radical Muslims? Is America in danger of replacing its judicial system with Sharia law? How and why do people get self-radicalized? Is reading the Koran dangerous? Should all Muslims be banned from the United States or just some of them? Can Muslim-Americans be counted on to be loyal to the United States? Should Homeland Security agents monitor the activities of Muslim-Americans? Is the United States in danger of becoming part of the worldwide quest among Muslims to establish a worldwide caliphate? Indeed, I am increasingly encountering people in their early 20s, who, having grown up and gone to public schools under the “war on terrorism,” are now dedicating their ...

A Great Article on the Fourth of July

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Elizabeth Cobbs, the Melbern Glasscock chair of American history at Texas A&M and a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, has penned one of the most astute op-eds on foreign policy in recent times. Her article, entitled “For U.S. Foreign Policy, It’s Time to Look Again at the Founding Fathers’ ‘Great Rule,’” was published in the Los Angeles Times on the Fourth of July. It’s an article that every American should read. It’s appropriate that the op-ed appeared on Independence Day because Cobb wants everyone to know that the interventionist foreign policy that now holds America in its grip — a foreign policy that she describes as one based on “playing global police officer” — was not the foreign policy on which America was founded. Citing George Washington’s famous Farewell Address in 1796, she says that the speech, which was edited by Alexander Hamilton at Washington’s request, “crystallized the president’s sentiment against foreign entanglements — then shared by most— into ...

A Few Thoughts on Machiavelli

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The Italian Renaissance politician and writer Nicolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) remains controversial. His defenders see him as a tough-minded “realist” and the founder of proper political science. Some writers find two Machiavellis: an advisor to aspiring despots, or (alternatively) a sincere republican theorist bent on freeing Italy from foreign rule. Either way, Machiavelli’s analysis of such categories as fortune, necessity, ...

An Exceptional and Indispensable Nation

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Hillary Clinton’s recent speech to the American Legion confirms the following: If you have liked the last 16 years of Bush-Obama, you’re going to love the next four years under a Clinton presidency. Her definition of “exceptionalism,” “indispensability,” and “leadership” means four more years of welfare, the drug war, bureaucracy, rules and regulations, invasions, occupations, regime-change operations, coups, support ...