Patrick MacFarlane

In this week's episode, I take the audience on an even deeper dive into my most recent piece for the Libertarian Institute. We explore these questions, and more: 1. What is the true extent of US involvement in Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion of 1979? 2. What is

In 1998, Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor Zbiegnew Brzezinski told Le Nouvel Observateur that the CIA "knowingly increased the probability" that the Russians would invade Afghanistan by covertly supporting the Mujahideen before the Soviet invasion. Later in the interview, Brzezinski claimed that this covert intervention caused

Managing Editor of the Libertarian Institute and longtime friend and guest of the show Keith Knight joins me in this week's episode to review an article by Joseph Sobran. Joseph Sobran was the Senior Editor of the National Review. After 18 years in that position, he began to

For libertarians, a hatred of communism must not overshadow a love of liberty. For decades, the US Empire duped conservatives who might have otherwise emulated the Old Right, dispatching them on an international crusade against communism, resulting in decades of disastrous wars and regime change operations. Unfortunately, these same forces