Argue the Point

My friend Jeff Frazee, former staffer to Congressman Ron Paul and graduate student at Texas A&M, has written a great op-ed piece in defense of the right of academic types like John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt to write articles critical of American foreign policy...

Manufacturing Crisis and Leviathan

All libertarians know about Crisis and Leviathan – not just the great book by Robert Higgs, but the simple principle too: when bad things happen government almost always benefits, and further, the “ratchet effect” makes it so that when government...

War Is the Health of What?

by Scott Horton Antiwar.com July 15, 2005 Paul Craig Roberts is not a leftist, a liberal, a socialist, or a Democrat. He never has been. Roberts was the assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Ronald Reagan. (We all know that the one-world socialist types in the...

Who’s Afraid of John Bolton?

By Scott Horton Antiwar.com April 02, 2005 George Bush’s nomination of John Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has provoked a storm of controversy, setting off cries of ‘loose cannon!’ and ‘unilateralism!’ from the more...

04/26/03 – Harry Browne – The Scott Horton Show

Philip Dru interviews Harry Browne, the Libertarian Party candidate for President of the United States of America in 1996 and 2000, the Director of Public Policy for the American Liberty Foundation and has written eleven books, including Why Government Doesn't...

‘A Republic, If You Can Keep It.’

By Dr. Ron Paul (R-Texas). From the Congressional Record of The House of Representatives, January 31, 2000 The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Green of Wisconsin). Under the Speaker’s announced policy of January 6, 1999, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Paul) is recognized for...

6/27/20 Mike Swanson on America’s ‘Zombie Firms’

Mike Swanson discusses the continuing economic fallout from the coronavirus, focusing in particular on what are sometimes called “zombie companies.” These firms stay afloat largely because of easy money available at low interest rates, even though their business may...

6/19/20 Dave DeCamp on the Killing of David McAtee

Dave DeCamp shares the tragic story of David McAtee, the owner of a barbecue restaurant in Louisville who was killed by National Guard troops during a recent night of protests. McAtee was cooking for a group of friends and customers several miles away from the nearest...

5/29/20 Coleen Rowley on the Dangerous Failings of the FBI

Scott talks to Coleen Rowley about the failures in America’s intelligence agencies that contributed to the 9/11 attacks, and that continue to plague us today. She reminds us that three FBI agents in three different states tried to pass very specific warnings to their...