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Commentary

The Sovietization of American Life

The Sovietization of American Life: Behind all our disasters there looms an ideology, a creed that ignores cause and effect in the real world—without a shred of concern for the damage done to those outside the nomenklatura.

Victor Davis Hanson | June 6, 2022

Our Spanish Civil War?

Our Spanish Civil War? Deep and brutal strife in 1930s Spain was a prelude to the barbarity of World War II. Now with the war in Ukraine, we’re reminded that the veneer of civilization is very thin.

Victor Davis Hanson | Apr. 26, 2022

Trickle-Down Racist Antiracism

Trickle-Down Racist Antiracism: This reactionary and neo-Confederate return to racial stigmatization and hatred is not going to end well.

Victor Davis Hanson | Apr. 18, 2022

U.S. Secret Service Open for Business

U.S. Secret Service Open for Business: Fake agents, possibly tied to Iranian and Pakistani intelligence, target Jill Biden’s security detail.

K. Lloyd Billingsley | Apr. 11, 2022

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Book Reviews

Land, the State, and War: Property Institutions and Political Order ...

Reviewed By Mikayla Novak

Land, the State, and War: Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan

Reviewed By Mikayla Novak

The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency

By John Mueller
Reviewed By Christopher J. Coyne

The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency

By John Mueller
Reviewed By Christopher J. Coyne

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

By Craig Whitlock
Reviewed By Thomas Brister

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

By Craig Whitlock
Reviewed By Thomas Brister

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Research

Introduction: Symposium on the War on Terror at Twenty

By Christopher J. Coyne
The Independent Review | Sep. 1, 2021

The Unipole in Twilight: American Strategy from 9/11 to the Present

By Justin Logan
The Independent Review | Sep. 1, 2021

Police State, U.S.A.

By Christopher J. Coyne, Yuliya Yatsyshina
The Independent Review | Sep. 1, 2021

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Independent Institute Books

Videos

$3.5 Trillion Boondoggle, Festering Border Crisis, ...

Afghanistan Debacle, Biden's Vaccine Mandate, California ...

Women and Children Suffer at the Hand of the Taliban—Research ...

Ivan Eland: The Impact of War on the Presidency

Senior Fellow Ivan Eland on C-SPAN Discusses the History ...

Trump’s Afghanistan Strategy: Sr. Fellow Ivan ...

Russia and Afghanistan and President Trump— Sr. ...

Ivan Eland on Taliban’s POW Exchange

Ivan Eland appears on RT’s CrossTalk

Ivan Eland at CPAC 2013 “Too Many American Wars” ...

Anthony Gregory on Independent Watch: The Bellicosity ...

Anthony Gregory on the Costs of Conflict

Ivan Eland on the Death of Osama bin Laden

Ivan Eland on Afghanistan’s Private Security Crackdown

Ivan Eland on the 2014 Afghanistan Withdrawal Deadline

Can the U.S. Withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq?

Charles Peña on 8th Anniversary of Afghanistan ...

Robert Higgs on War, Taxes, and Economic Crises

The U.S. War on Terrorism: Myths and Realities

Audio

“US Troops Pulled out of Iraq” Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland appears on the Lars Larson radio show
May 16, 2019

“Iran and Iraq and the Threat of War” Ivan Eland appears on the Lars Larson radio show
May 16, 2019

“Ending the War in Afghanistan” Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland appears on the Lars Larson radio show
Mar. 6, 2019

Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland Interviewed on Doug Stephan’s Good Day Radio Show
Aug. 6, 2015

Ivan Eland on the Peter Schiff Show at CPAC 2013
Mar. 14, 2013

Charles V. Peña on the Need to Withdraw from Afghanistan
June 22, 2011

Charles Pena on CNBC, Explaining the Afghanistan Quagmire
July 2, 2010

Can the U.S. Withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq?
Dec. 9, 2009