America's post-9/11 foreign policies have damaged its image abroad, and this is particularly true in Japan, the home of LewRockwell.com columnist Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers. In his new book Schizophrenic in Japan, Rogers, an American expatriate living in Tokyo, provides a...

In 1215, disgruntled English barons unwittingly won a great victory for Western liberty. After King John waged several unsuccessful, senseless wars, the barons, sick of financing wars in which they had no interest, temporarily ended John's despotism by forcing him to...

In his essay "War is the Health of the State," Randolph Bourne criticizes war as an enterprise that increases the state's control over its subjects. During times of peace, people think less about the state and more about living their everyday lives. However, when war...

Though recent American presidents have pursued a policy of global hegemony, the Bush administration has pursued world dominance with a vengeance. The administration's National Security Strategy, for example, calls for preemptive wars against potential threats to...