Archive for Foreign Policy
Bob Murphy Show 95: Tareq Haddad on the Syrian Chemical Weapon Scandal and Why He Resigned From Newsweek
This is an important conversation that I encourage you to absorb when you have the time. Below is the video of course, and this link is to the audio if you prefer that.
Read moreRaimondo on Korea
Now admittedly there is an element of “I told you so!” to this essay, but Justin Raimondo’s analysis on North Korea is also very optimistic. Remember, the Chinese leadership realized hardcore communism wasn’t working, and began serious liberalization. It’s not ludicrous to think Kim wants the same, if he can figure out how to achieve […]
Read moreWere Grateful
Michael Malice has moved his podcast “YOUR [sic] WELCOME” to the Gas Digital Network, and Episode #3 is what podcasts were designed for: It takes the libertarian (for purists, anarcho-capitalist) expert on North Korea (Malice) and puts him into a conversation with the comic strip expert on Donald Trump (Scott Adams). I am being dead […]
Read moreThis Is Your Economics on TDS
When Trump says China is killing us on trade, free-market economists are quick to point out that there are positive-sum games. When pundits speculate on the impact of certain events, free-market economists often point to the stock market as the best aggregator of expert opinion. Now US defense stocks are down… Even so, because North Korea […]
Read moreCan You Speak Ill of the Ill?
I wouldn’t have said a word about Charles Krauthammer were it not for people who are guffawing over the fact that some criticize him. For example, here’s Jim Geraghty: There’s not a lot that can be added to the tributes and appreciations that arrived almost immediately. Fay Vincent writes “he goes out like Lou Gehrig.” […]
Read moreLara-Murphy Interview With Scott Horton
Because Scott is one of the leading foreign policy experts from a libertarian perspective, we decided to make his interview in the LMR publicly available. Scott talks about central banking and war, and then specifically about Afghanistan and the Iran deal.
Read moreLet’s Give Trump Credit for This
It is absolutely amazing that Donald Trump has pulled off what I would have thought impossible just a few years ago: He has made it “cool” for someone on Fox to tear into the neocons. Over at EconLog, David R. Henderson notes that Steven Chapman writes a whole article complaining about how Trump has somehow […]
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