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Online Exclusive 12/11/2025 Blog

What We've Been Reading

Online Exclusive 11/17/2025 Online Essay

Department of Violence

Pete Hegseth's speech and the U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats reveal an American policy of war without rules, violence without constraint.

Online Exclusive 10/23/2025 Online Essay

Beware the Boomerang Effect: Why U.S. Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats Pose a Profound Threat to American Freedom

The U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats point toward an intensification of unchecked destructive and coercive power that directly threatens civil and political freedom.

Online Exclusive 06/16/2016 Blog

Why we need better central bank accountability

As pundits debate whether the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates again this summer or fall, we are reminded of just how much of ...

Online Exclusive 06/10/2016 Blog

Pacta Sunt Servanda, Treaties, and the U.S. Election

How would each presidential candidate approach what is one of the bedrock ethical principles of how the United States conducts foreign policy: pacta sunt servanda, ...

Online Exclusive 05/20/2016 Blog

Trans-Pacific Partnership and Trump

Listening to Marketplace's discussion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, two things jumped out at me: the first is the assessment that, after all the heavy lifting ...

Online Exclusive 04/28/2016 Blog

The Ethics of Trump's Foreign Policy vs. Obama's Long Game

Much of the reaction to Donald Trump's foreign policy speech, beyond the campaign-related questions of whether this address makes him look more presidential or electable, ...

Online Exclusive 04/1/2016 Blog

Communitarian Approach? New China-U.S. Agreements

Do the agreements reached at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington between Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping represent an evolution towards the communitarian vision ...