How Social Contract Theory Became State Apologetics https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-social-contract-theory-became-state-apologetics By Joshua Mawhorter > Social contract theory was used to critique a form of the state, but was also used to legitimize the modern nation-state.

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By Joshua Mawhorter Social contract theory was used to critique a form of the state, but was also used to legitimize the modern nation-state. [2 co...

Will Congress Expose Israel's 60-Year Nuclear Secret? -The Libertarian Institute

Will Congress Expose Israel's 60-Year Nuclear Secret? | The Libertarian Institute

By Jose Nino > Israel has maintained a deliberate posture known as nuclear opacity—in Hebrew,[ amimut](https://libertarianinstitute.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aae39e31b9f819f1e2384ca07&id=378f3bc681&e=4d47a68367)—for nearly six decades. The policy was formally codified in 1969 in a secret accord between Prime Minister Golda Meir and President Richard Nixon, and has remained in place ever since.[ As *Foreign Affairs* summarized](

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For decades, Israel has maintained an "opaque" nuclear posture -- neither confirming nor denying that it possesses nuclear weapons. The time has co...

it combines secrecy, signaling, and denial: officials are prohibited “both by law and by custom” from discussing nuclear activities; Israel implies capability without confirming it; and the government neither confirms nor denies possession. > The canonical formula, first given by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol in 1966 and repeated ever since by [Aviezer Pazner](https://libertarianinstitute.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aae39e31b9f819f1e2384ca07&id=db5dfab40e&e=4d47a68367), is that Israel “will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East.” The goal, as scholar Avner Cohen has [documented](

Wrestling With Nuclear Opacity | Arms Control Association

is to allow Israel to “live in the best of all possible worlds by having the bomb but without having to deal with many of the negative consequences that such possession entails”—namely international sanctions, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) obligations, and a formal nuclear arms race in the region.

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By Jose Nino Israel has maintained a deliberate posture known as nuclear opacity—in Hebrew, amimut—for nearly six decades. The policy was forma...

Why Does America Keep Testing Failed 'Decapitation' Strategies?

Why Does America Keep Testing Failed 'Decapitation' Strategies? | The Libertarian Institute

By Jose Nino > The United States has long operated under a seductive strategic fantasy. Remove the leader of an adversary organization, whether a drug cartel, a terrorist group, or a sovereign state, and that organization will collapse, enabling American interests to fill the resulting vacuum. > However, decades of academic literature, hard empirical data from Mexico’s drug war, and the lived consequences of America’s post 9/11 targeted killing campaigns all tell a damning story many in the DC ruling class refuse to acknowledge. Decapitation strategies are, at best, tactically satisfying and strategically hollow. At worst, they escalate violence, radicalize successors, and produce precisely the instability they were designed to prevent. > The ongoing U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran represents the most ambitious test of this doctrine in history. The results so far are deeply troubling.

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By Jose Nino The United States has long operated under a seductive strategic fantasy. Remove the leader of an adversary organization, whether a dru...

Stacker Sports Pod • Episode 82: Playing Under Protest and No Losers Allowed https://www.fountain.fm/episode/dcgLfiVUa7cQ85w2Pi3D It finally found its way to Fountain! It's been so long since we recorded this that I need to listen back through to remember what we talked about. Happy listening!

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It finally found its way to Fountain! It's been so long since we recorded this that I need to listen back through to remember what we talked about....

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Who Pays the Hormuz Toll? https://mises.org/mises-wire/who-pays-hormuz-toll By Kristoffer Mousten Hansen > According to Rothbard’s first law of incidence, “no tax can be shifted forward.” That is, the person or company paying the tax cannot make the buyer pay the tax.

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By Kristoffer Mousten Hansen According to Rothbard’s first law of incidence, “no tax can be shifted forward.” That is, the person or company ...

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