Books by Laurie Calhoun

media and commentary on recent books by Laurie Calhoun: Theodicy: a metaphilosophical investigation, You Can Leave,  We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age & War and Delusion: A Critical Examination.

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'Might Makes Right' Declares Trump White House | The Libertarian Institute

As outrageous as the comportment of the current U.S. president may be to many people throughout the world, there is a silver lining to Donal

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Alex Karp, Charlatan | The Libertarian Institute

In 2025, Palantir CEO Alex Karp released his first book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. Th

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The Madness of King Donald's Drug Policy | The Libertarian Institute

If you attempt to smuggle heroin into Indonesia, where I happen to be writing this sentence, and you are caught and convicted of doing so, t

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https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-strange-case-of-summary-execution-of-eleven-suspects-in-caribbean-waters/

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Libertarianism and Metaethics | The Libertarian Institute

I was intrigued by a recent manifesto here at the Libertarian Institute, “Libertarianism Requires a ‘Subjective Morality,’” by Sean Dolan. T

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“Smart War” and State Terrorism | The Libertarian Institute

On June 16, 2025, President Donald Trump threatened the 10 million inhabitants of Tehran, Iran, with death, for their government’s alleged n

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The Golden Doom | The Libertarian Institute

Back in the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan famously championed the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), referred to colloquially as “Star War

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Lethally Blind: Anti-Republican Legacies of the U.S. Drone Program | The Libertarian Institute

The U.S. government has been using unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs), or lethal drones, to dispatch terrorist suspects with impunity f

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Drones Run Amok | The Libertarian Institute

Drones, drones, everywhere drones. For a few weeks, clusters of drones of unknown provenance were recently seen flying in the skies above Ne

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https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/drone-swarms-and-the-homicidal-impunity-of-governments/?feed_id=17113&_unique_id=66e81e3a2b075

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Democracy has been a much discussed topic of late, what with the separation of President Joe Biden from his delegates only weeks before the

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Ep 140: Is ‘Democracy’ a Scam? with Laurie Calhoun | Libertarian Christian Institute

Ep 140: Is ‘Democracy’ a Scam? with Laurie Calhoun   In this episode I welcome back Laurie Calhoun, an author and senior fellow at the Liber

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Scott Horton & Laurie Calhoun Discuss U.S. Foreign Policy & Secretary of War Antony Blinken, et al.

Scott Horton and Laurie Calhoun have a wide-ranging discussion of current and recent U.S. foreign policy, focusing on the ongoing crises in

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Parody of a Statesman: Antony Blinken, Secretary of War | The Libertarian Institute

For Halloween last year, the United States’ highest ranked diplomat, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, dressed his son and daughter up as U

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Sham-ocracy, Scam-ocracy | The Libertarian Institute

The word "democracy" is bandied about rhetorically by politicians on a regular basis to rationalize whatever it is that they want to do. Thi

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Life During Gaza Wartime | The Libertarian Institute

People are by now firmly entrenched in their respective positions regarding the conflict raging in Gaza since October 7, 2023. The Hamas att