War is Peace, Democracy is Freedom

The democratic peace theory, which claims that democracies don’t wage war on each other, championed by pro-censorship “freedomist” R.J. Rummel, is littered with problems, perhaps most notably its shifting of definitions to the point that...

Jonah Goldberg: Hypocrite, Chickenhawk

Chickenhawk:”In the weeks prior to the war to liberate Afghanistan, a good friend of mine would ask me almost every day, “Why aren’t we killing people yet?” And I never had a good answer for him. Because one of the most important and vital...

Reason: War? What war?

You’d barely know there’s a war on from Reason magazine’s online commentary on the State of the Union speech: only Ron Paul devotes his remarks to foreign policy, and is, as usual, great on the subject. Bob Barr mentions the “war on...

Purple Finger Neocon Rag

From MG at Norwegianity: Stick your purple finger up in the air, wave it around like you just don’t care, Chalabi’s back in, that’s in the bag, That’s how you do the neocon ragCatchy, isn’t it? And, so very timely,...

Unconscious Biases

It turns out that people think conflicts of interest don’t much matter. “If you disclose a conflict of interest, people in general don’t know how to use that information,” George Loewenstein, an economics professor at Carnegie Mellon, says....