Sheldon Richman, vice president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses how to retain individual freedoms while being vigilant against terrorist attacks in his article "The Open Society and its Worst Enemies."

Dan Sanchez, director of the Mises Academy, discusses Ludwig von Mises's lectures on how capitalism empowers people to rise above poverty and servitude through private ownership of the means of production.

Jason Leopold, a writer for Vice News and author of News Junkie, discusses How Guantanamo Became America's Interrogation "Battle Lab," where prisoners were subjected to untested psychological experiments to determine "the effects of torture and the limits of the human spirit."

Barry Lando, a former 60 Minutes producer and author of Web of Deceit, discusses how the US's diplomatic blunders helped start the Gulf War, 24 years ago today; why George H.W. Bush is responsible for the tens of thousands of Iraqis who tried to rise up and overthrow Saddam Hussein; and how the war continues to shape the Middle East, US foreign policy, and the War on Terror.

Mitchell Prothero, a journalist with McClatchy Newspapers, discusses the Kurdish battle for Erbil against the Islamic State; and why Iraqis aren't willing to fight for their country, beyond their particular religious and sectarian enclaves.

Patrick Cockburn, a Middle East correspondent with The Independent, discusses France's terrorism blowback resulting from their ongoing intervention in Muslim countries; and the Islamic State's sustainability in Iraq.