A Better Direction Entails Fundamental Change
With the Taliban defeat of the U.S. military in Afghanistan, the temptation will be to engage only in โsmartโ interventions in the future. You can already see this in the countless articles and commentaries about the Afghan debacle, both in the mainstream press and on...
Loving the Founders, but Hating their Foreign Policy?
A lot of self-described constitution supporters – and people who claim to respect and love the founders – get pretty unhinged whenever they’re confronted with the fact that a constitutional foreign policy would be incredibly modest in comparison to...
Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address: 13 “Essential Principles”
Today in History: President Thomas Jefferson gave his first inaugural address on March 4, 1801. While other presidential addresses and warnings might be more well-known – Jefferson emphasized what he called “essential principles” we’d do well...