Sheldon Richman
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Arkansas, United States
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The Non-Intervention Principle
Anyone old enough to think about “America’s” role in the world ought to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. For example, one ought to be able to argue firmly against U.S. intervention in other countries without feeling obliged to downplay or deny the real crimes that the tyrant du jour has committed. Unfortunately, not everyone agrees. More → Read More
Anti-BDS Laws Violate Our Freedom
Americans’ free-speech and other rights are being violated by state laws aimed at stifling the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) Movement against Israel’s illegal rule of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, both conquered over half a century ago. Twenty-eight states have enacted anti-BDS laws or executive orders that prohibit state agencies and state-financed More → Read More
Let’s Make Sure the Nazis Killed in Vain
I don’t know how many times I heard that if we don’t stand by Israel, the victims of the Nazi Judeocide will have died in vain. I knew something was wrong with that claim, but for the longest time I couldn’t put my finger on it. Now I think I can. The claim is peculiar right off the bat. How would backing an Israeli regime that systematically and indiscriminately oppresses an entire non-European… → Read More
Trump Turns to Gaza as Middle East Deal of the Century Collapses
The Trump administration’s “Deal of the Century” for the Palestine-Israel has, predictably, gone over like a lead balloon. So it’s shifting gears. The Washington Post reports, “With President Trump’s promised Middle East peace plan stalled, administration officials are focusing on improving conditions in the impoverished Gaza Strip — a move that could put political pressure on Palestinian… → Read More
How an Anti-Semitic American Law Helped to Create the State of Israel and a Whole Lot of Trouble
Shlomo Sand, a remarkable scholar who studies how “peoples,” including the Jewish people, have been invented through myths propagated by court historian → Read More
Universal Basic Income Proposal Still Fails to Pass Libertarian Scrutiny
We don’t need UBI to enable people to tell bosses to take the job and shove it. → Read More
Universal Basic Income Proposal Still Fails to Pass Libertarian Scrutiny
We don't need UBI to enable people to tell bosses to take the job and shove it. → Read More
Americans Have a Dangerous Deficit in Trade Understanding
It doesn't matter if those to whom you sell goods and labor are not the same as those from whom you buy these things. The same goes for America. → Read More
Americans Have a Dangerous Deficit in Trade Understanding
It doesn't matter if those to whom you sell goods and labor are not the same as those from whom you buy these things. The same goes for America. → Read More
'Trade Wars' Don't Put Americans First
Restrictionist trade policies benefit a select, well-connected few at the expense of everyone else. → Read More
‘Peace Through Strength’ Is a Racket
The way to achieve peace is not to prepare for war but to reject militarism and empire, and embrace nonintervention. → Read More
Raining on Trump's Military Parade
We must find a way to rekindle the antimilitarist spirit that hysteria about imagined enemies has extinguished. → Read More
No Freedom From the Church of America
The religion this church administers is Americanism, a species of nationalism. → Read More
Trump's 'America First' Plan Is Naked Special-Interest Policymaking
Trump is coddling firms that are better at lobbying than competing in the marketplace. → Read More
Trump Versus the World
According to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, somewhere President Donald Trump, instead of saying, “Why do we want all these people from Africa here? They’re shithole countries…. We should have more people from Norway.,” said, “Why don’t we allow more people from shithole countries to come here? They need a decent place to live and work and succeed. Their rulers hold them… → Read More
For Libertarians, No Silver Lining With President Trump
There's been little sign that those who despise Trump are beginning to understand that the only real solution lies in radically shrinking the state. → Read More
FBI Handling of Michael Flynn Case Is Disturbing
Why didn't the FBI charge Flynn with an underlying crime? It might be because there was none. → Read More
Libertarians and the Authoritarian Right
Libertarianism has nothing to offer populist authoritarians. → Read More
Real Common Sense on Gun Control
A false sense of security is worse than no sense of security at all. → Read More
Quit Worrying About Russia in Borderless World
Is American society so fragile that a few “divisive” ads, news stories, commentaries, and even lies — perhaps emanating from Russia — threaten to plunge it into darkness? The establishment’s narrative on “Russian election meddling” would have you believe that. On its face, the alarm over this is so ridiculous that I doubt any of the fearmongers really believe their own words. They’re attempting… → Read More