Op-Eds and Articles

The National Guard cannot serve two masters

To Save the Republic, Abandon the Empire, with Jon Hoffman

America’s birthright is anti-imperialist, not empire | Responsible Statecraft

America’s Post-Deliberative Wars | FUSION

BRANDAN BUCK: Why Congress Keeps Surrendering Its War Powers | The Daily Caller

Trump’s ill-fated attempt to copy Israel’s ‘mowing the grass’ strategy | Responsible Statecraft

Wars Abroad Lead to Suppression at Home – The American Conservative

Ground war in Iran would be hell

Nostalgia isn’t strategy: Stop the Monroe revisionism and listen | Responsible Statecraft

~2025~

Trump’s lawless narco-war – UnHerd

Don’t Do It, Mr. President – The American Conservative

When ‘Peace Through Strength’ Means ‘War Is Peace’ – The American Conservative, with Beckett Elkins

How the Trump Administration Can Build on What’s Working in the War on Drugs | Cato Institute

The Lost Liberalism of America First | Cato Institute

Trump’s Dilemma: Can He Be Anti-Iran and Anti-War? | The Daily Economy

The Inspiring Legacy of Anti-War Conservatism – The American Conservative

US Air Strikes on Iran: a Fool’s Errand Risks Forever War | The Daily Economy

Douglas Murray Misreads MAGA’s Ukraine Stance – The American Conservative

The Foreign Aid Controversy Echoes Cold War Debates – The American Conservative

~2024~

Invading Mexico Will Not Solve the Cartel Problem – The American Conservative

US veterans: Didn’t we fight Al Qaeda terrorists for a reason? | Responsible Statecraft

The ‘Foreign Asset’ Smear Is Antidemocratic – The American Conservative

America Was Never Isolationist – The American Conservative

Harris embrace of Cheney goes back to World War I | Responsible Statecraft

Neocon Charlie Sykes’ Tortured Analogies, Past and Present | The Libertarian Institute

Beyond the Noise: NATO Debates, Past and Present | Responsible Statecraft

~2023~

Enemies Above: The FBI and the Creation of the Brown Scare Myth | The Libertarian Institute

Feeling manipulated? How Uncle Sam perfected the information state – Responsible Statecraft

~2022~

Brown Scare, Red Scare, Fake Scare, Who’s Scared? | The Libertarian Institute

Power Elite Analysis: Lessons from the ‘Conspiracist’ Right and New Left Academics | The Libertarian Institute

Deja vu: Republicans fracturing over Ukraine, just like Korea – Responsible Statecraft

The Loneliness of Ron Paul: By the Numbers, 1975-1985 | The Libertarian Institute

Why Can’t We Be Friends? The History of and Prospects for Left and Right Antiwar Collaboration (freethepeople.org)

No ‘Putin apologia’ and certainly not new: the Old American Right on war – Responsible Statecraft

Why I Won’t Fight – Antiwar.com Original

A History of Distrust: How the Right Lost Faith in Institutions (freethepeople.org)

~2021~

Bear Any Burden: Military Sacrifice and Rise of American Populism – Antiwar.com Original

A Brief History of the “Isolationist” Strawman | History News Network

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