Not the Oil? Really?

In a rather surprising article over at Reason, Shikha Dalmia writes not only that oil is not a driving force in the U.S. intervention in Libya, but that it doesn’t even drive our broader Middle East policy. Indeed, it is a “tired saw invoked by U.S....

As Arab Spring Grows, Superman Renounces US Citizenship

Its never really been clear to me why comic book storylines have such an ability to rile up political factions, but after the bizarre row over the French Muslim ally of Batman it should have come as no surprise when Action Comics #900 included a story about Superman,...

Wartime Prosperity

Recently, the Washington Post’s David Broder resurrected the tired and long debunked case for wartime prosperity, claiming that “a showdown with the mullahs” in Iran would be a boon to the economy. As political economist and historian Robert Higgs has shown time...

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