I recently came across an excellent letter to the editor published in Liberty magazine back in 1990. The writer was criticizing a Liberty article which argued that "lesser interactions" like the invasion of Grenada do not add to the domestic power of the...

Lebanon on the Brink of Disaster

Nuclear Power, Weapons and the Future of the Middle East

Will there actually be some justice rendered to a Bush administration top dog? Federal judge Reggie Walton ruled today that convicted felon Irving “Scooter” Libby must begin serving his prison sentence within the next several weeks. This will send the...

[audio:http://dissentradio.com/radio/07_06_14_garris_540am.mp3] Antiwar.com Webmaster Eric Garris will be the guest on The Show with Hal Ginsberg on KRXA-AM in Monterey, California (540 on the AM dial), in the 1-2pm hour, Pacific time (4-5pm Eastern time). Garris is...

In this selection from "World War I As Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals," Murray Rothbard connected the moralistic prohibitionism of the early "progressives" with the militaristic world-saving spirit of Wilsonian internationalism in a way that made me laugh...

A neighbor of mine, Hrag Vartanian, writes today in his blog about the NYT's Nicholas Kristof's Iraq Poetry Contest. One entry that particularly moved him was by a fourth grader from the South Bronx whose father apparently was killed in Iraq. I wonder what young...

Sink the Liberty!