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• Originally published 04/03/2014

  The World Is Much Safer Than 20th-Century Historians Would Have You Believe

  We should heed historians' warnings, but we should also appreciate the progress that global security has made in the intervening century.

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• Originally published 05/06/2013

  The Historic Agreement to End the Conflict in Kosovo

  Photo credit: Flickr/_Matt_T_After protracted, months-long negotiations, Kosovo and Serbia recently agreed to a compromise on sovereignty and autonomy that would end two decades of conflict. In extinguishing the last embers of war in what was Yugoslavia -- the volatile, ethnically divided nation where the assassination of an Austrian archduke launched World War I, and where civil war throughout the nineties led to ethnic cleansing and other atrocities -- Europe is nearing the end of its long journey to overcome its tribal enmities and build a cohesive, peaceful civilization.

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• Originally published 07/18/2014

  War, Peace, and Murray Rothbard

  With wars raging in the Middle East, it seems like a good time to revisit a classic work by Murray Rothbard (1926–1995), the economist, historian, and political philosopher who had a lot to do with the birth and evolution of the modern libertarian movement. His “War, Peace, and the State” is something that all peace advocates — not just self-conscious libertarians — ought to be familiar with.