Foreign Policy & War
The Barbary Wars and Their Lesson for Combating Piracy Today
Examines the key events surrounding the Barbary Wars (two wars the United States fought in the early 19th century to end North African piracy), zeros in on the reasons why the First Barbary War failed to end the pirate attacks but the second succeeded, and draws from this remarkable and clarifying history a vital lesson for the United States today. Read the opening paragraphs (full article accessible to subscribers).
Islamic Imperialism: A History, by Efraim Karsh
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The Israel Test, by George Gilder
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America’s Self-Crippled Foreign Policy (accessible for free)
An interview with Yaron Brook, Elan Journo, and Alex Epstein
Discusses the dismal state of American foreign policy and what should be done about it. Read the interview.
An Unwinnable War?
The introduction to the forthcoming book, Winning the Unwinnable War: America’s Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism, which is edited by Mr. Journo and includes essays by Yaron Brook, Elan Journo, and Alex Epstein. Read the opening paragraphs (full article accessible to subscribers).
Reason or Faith: The Republican Alternative (accessible for free)
Analyzes the resounding Republican defeat and shows that the party faces a fundamental decision that will determine whether it orchestrates a comeback or stumbles into further defeat. Read the article.
McBama vs. America (accessible for free)
Surveys the promises of John McCain and Barack Obama, shows that these intentions are at odds with the American ideal of individual rights, demonstrates that the cause of such political aims is a particular moral philosophy (shared by McCain and Obama), and calls for Americans to repudiate that morality and to embrace instead a morality that supports the American ideal. Read the article.
Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions, by John Agresto
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The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack, by Ronald Kessler
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First into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War, by George Weller
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Sun-tzu: Art of War, translated with an introduction and commentary by Ralph D. Sawyer
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Immigration and Individual Rights (accessible for free)
Zeros in on the basic principle of America and demonstrates that this principle mandates a policy of open immigration, debunks several common arguments for prohibiting or limiting immigration, shows why all such arguments are necessarily invalid, and indicates what Americans must do if we are to reestablish and maintain the kind of moral, rights-respecting immigration policy that was advocated by the Founders. Read the article.
“Gifts from Heaven”: The Meaning of the American Victory over Japan, 1945
Identifies the ideology of sacrifice behind the Japanese aggression that culminated in World War II; documents America’s recognition of this ideology as the fundamental cause of the Japanese assault on the West; explains how America targeted, dismantled, and discredited this ideology, replacing it with the ideas, values, and institutions necessary for the establishment of a free society; and defends America’s use of the atomic bomb as a profoundly moral way to end the war. Read the opening paragraphs (full article accessible to subscribers).
Neoconservative Foreign Policy: An Autopsy
Surveys the manifest failure of neoconservative foreign policy, which is alleged to be in America’s “national interest,” zeros in on the fundamental reason for that failure, and calls for the only moral and practical alternative to it: a foreign policy of genuine American self-interest. Read the opening paragraphs (full article accessible to subscribers).
“The Balm for a Guilty Conscience”: Moral Paralysis, Appeasement, and the Causes of World War II
Shows how altruism and egalitarianism—combined with guilt caused by these same factors in regard to World War I—led to British appeasement and compromise in the late 1930s, which, in turn, enabled the rise of Nazi Germany and necessitated World War II. Read the opening paragraphs (full article accessible to subscribers).
The “Forward Strategy” for Failure (accessible for free)
Examines the Bush administration’s so-called war strategy and shows that its manifest failure is a consequence not of good ideas poorly implemented, but of the morally corrupt ideas motivating the administration. Read the article.
“No Substitute for Victory”: The Defeat of Islamic Totalitarianism (accessible for free)
Consults historical precedent to evaluate America’s response to the attacks of 9/11. Considering key historical attacks against America, along with her responses to those attacks, Lewis highlights the moral and practical issues involved, and draws vital lessons that Americans must grasp and apply in the current war—if we want to win it. Read the article.
The Jihad on America
Elucidates the fundamental ideas behind, and the principal sponsors of, the Islamic assault on America by reference to the words and deeds of its adherents and supporters—words and deeds that westerners in general and Americans in particular must understand if we are to eliminate this anti-life movement before it eliminates more of us. Read the opening paragraphs (full article accessible to subscribers).
William Tecumseh Sherman and the Moral Impetus for Victory
Presents the essential history of Sherman's march, showing how Sherman developed and implemented his ideas that lead to the North's victory in the Civil War, and drawing the moral lessons we can learn from this great man about how to properly approach and quickly defeat enemies of freedom. Read the opening paragraphs (full article accessible to subscribers).
“Just War Theory” vs. American Self-Defense (accessible for free)
Presents the principles of “Just War Theory”—the disastrous, altruistic theory underlying and guiding the Bush administration’s so-called “War on Terrorism”—and contrasts them with the principles of a proper, egoistic approach to American self-defense. Read the article.
Exposing Anti-Muslim “Conspiracies”
Surveys and identifies the fundamental cause of the widespread conspiracy theories that plague the Middle East and help convert millions of people into anti-Western lunatics. Read the opening paragraphs (full article accessible to subscribers).
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