American Justice?
The Senate Intelligence Committee released a shocking 6,000-page report detailing the systematic abuse of “terror detainees,” yet many are defending the practices, up to torture. ...
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Kissinger’s World Order
At times very clear and readable, and at times vague and opaque, Henry Kissinger’s book World Order explains how to finish building world government. ...
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Unbroken: Visually Stunning but Lacking Character Development
The true-life story of American Olympic runner and World War II POW Louis Zamperini, Unbroken is an inspiring tale of human endurance. But on the whole, it fails to...
“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” and Jackson’s Tolkien Extravaganza
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is a fitting conclusion to Jackson’s six-movie Tolkien extravaganza. Where Jackson faltered from time to time in trying to capture the...
Your Vote Doesn’t Really Matter — Or So You’re Led to Believe
Tufts University political scientist Michael Glennon explains why American foreign policy and much American policy never seem to change, no matter who occupies the White House and Congress. ...
America: Land of the Free?
The Communist Manifesto once shocked American readers with its version of radical socialism, called communism. Now, it’s nearing complete implementation in America. ...
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Tale of Two Passenger Planes: MH 17 and Iran Air 655
With all the furor over MH 17, why has nobody mentioned the 1988 tragedy of Iran Air 655? ...
A Globalist’s Plea to Stay the Course of World Order
The New Republic's Robert Kagan urges America not to abandon the new world order. ...
U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against Argentina in Debt Repayment Case
Argentina is once again out of options to satisfy creditors; will the United States follow? ...
Bergdahl, Gitmo Detainees, and the Rule of Law
With the narrative of Bowe Bergdahl, the American POW from Idaho held by the Taliban for five years, changing by the hour, it is perhaps premature to pass judgment...
The Fading Middle Class
Notwithstanding the very real technological advances that Americans use for their benefit, the standard of living for America’s middle class has been declining for decades. ...
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Liberty’s Language
Stephen Du Ponceau was a young French linguist who translated for the Continental Army, on his way to becoming an exemplar of liberty’s advantages. ...
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Review of “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”
It’s impossible to surmise what J. R. R. Tolkien’s shade might think about the latest big screen adaptation of his fantasy corpus set in a fictional Middle Earth of...
Are the Feds Reaping Windfall Profits From Student Loans?
The Federal Government made $41.3 billion on its subsidized student-loan program in fiscal 2013. Or did it? It has been argued that if more realistic accounting methods were applied...
Commemorating the Life of C.S. Lewis
Fifty years ago today, C.S. Lewis died of kidney failure at his home in Oxford, England, and Great Britain is observing the 50th anniversary of the death of one...
Four Lessons From the Shutdown
Anyone who believed at the beginning of the last government shutdown that Republicans were going to stand on principle to the bitter end hasn’t been paying attention. ...
Fed Nominee Yellen, a Staunch Inflationist and Establishmentarian
If the U.S. Senate confirms Obama Fed nominee Janet Yellen, she will use her power to ensure the continued ascendancy of the “money trust,” to the long-lasting detriment of...
Rough Road to Recovery
President Obama has claimed that America is well on its way to economic recovery, but if job figures, incomes, inflation, and debt are any indication, he’s wrong. ...
Why the Government Shutdown Is a Welcome Development
The very fact that the government shutdown has forced Washington to admit that much of what it does is “non-essential” is an important wake-up call. ...
Salon Acknowledges “Elites’ Strange Plot to Take Over the World”
Salon’s Matt Stoller apparently feels that the 20th-century drive to create world government — obvious in hindsight — is now far enough in the rearview mirror, and the institutions...