The Indian tribesman’s claim to his ancient stomping grounds can’t be reduced to a title search at the deeds office. That’s the stuff of the positive law. And this was the point I took away from a conversation, circa 2000, with Mr. Property Rights himself, Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Dr. Hoppe argued unassailably—does he argue any other way?—that if
News first broke about America’s Niger misadventure on October 4. “The real news here is that the US has forces in Niger, where they’re conducting covert operations,” this writer tweeted out. “Hashtag America First.” Official media ignored the ambush of the American Special Forces, until the story gained anti-Trump traction. No word came from John
In a fit of pique in 2016, then-President Barack Obama expelled Russian diplomats from the United States. K. T. McFarland, Michael Flynn ‘s deputy in the Trump transition team, worried that Obama’s expulsion of the diplomats was aimed at “ boxing Trump in diplomatically, “ making it impossible for the president to “improve relations with Russia,”
In the tradition of dimming debate, the chattering class has reduced systemic corruption in South Africa and the near collapse in Zimbabwe, respectively, to the shenanigans of two men: Jacob Zuma and Robert Mugabe. Zuma, the President of South Africa, currently faces possible impeachment for corruption , while Robert Mugabe has now been forcibly
American foreign policy is a museum of horrors in which Gaza 2023/2024 is the main exhibit. It is my conviction that Gaza is much more than just one more American foreign-policy failure, an event and topic to swill around like mouth wash, spit out and move on, once the usual “ tsk, tsk ” bromides have been disgorged. Uncle Sam’s usual deathly
In teasing out right from wrong, discriminate we must between acts that are criminal only because The State has criminalized them ( mala prohibita ), as opposed to acts which are universally evil ( malum in se ). Israel’s sacking of Gaza is malum in se, universally evil . Gaza is clearly an easy case in ethics. It’s not as though the genocide
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