Bill Kristol, the always-wrong political commentator who never saw a war he didn’t love, inexplicably agreed to debate the great Scott Horton in 2021.
Kristol, who spent decades on all the cable news shows, was the founder and editor of the Weekly Standard before it folded, and he co-founded the neoconservative Project for a New American Century.
In debating Scott, Kristol had no idea he was about to walk into a buzzsaw.
The debate was about “regime change” as a strategy for U.S. foreign policy.
I don’t know what Kristol was expecting, but he had his head handed to him.
It was a massacre.
And it told us something we should have known already: the establishment in America and no doubt in most countries of the world consists of deeply unimpressive people.
They run away from debates with the dissident world not because they’re too dignified to deal with people like us, but because they’ll get steamrolled.
Recently, Scott took Tucker Carlson on a 70-year tour through American Middle Eastern policy. You can tell Tucker was both intrigued and sympathetic, which means our arguments are finally reaching beyond our usual audiences and into a whole new arena.
Scott has debated Gen. Wesley Clark on Piers Morgan Uncensored four times now. Among many other things, Clark served as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Europe.
Scott has left the general in the dust, time and again.
You may remember in 2008 and 2012 how many people said, “I agree with Ron Paul, except on foreign policy.”
But foreign policy was the best thing about Ron Paul!
And as time has passed, some of those very people have begun to figure that out — in no small part because of the work of Scott Horton.
“Scott Horton is one of the most knowledgeable and articulate critics of the American interventionist foreign policy I have ever encountered.”
Ron Paul, Former U.S. Congressman & Presidential Candidate
Why This Academy Exists
Wars are sold with lies, and most Americans never hear the other side. Scott Horton Academy exists to change that—delivering the real history, the exposed deceptions, and the tools to see through the next round of war propaganda.
Wouldn’t it be nice to walk around with that kind of information at the ready, so you could articulate the antiwar position with confidence?
This is Scott Horton as you’ve never seen or heard him before: Scott Horton the teacher and professor, walking you step by step through the material, pumping that firehose of knowledge straight into your brain, at a pace and with the level of detail you need to learn it, absorb it, and use it in your own conversations and debates.
Learn On Your Terms
And incidentally, after conducting over 6,000 interviews, you discover who the best authorities on all kinds of subjects are. The Scott Horton Rolodex is pretty big, and you can also expect courses at the Scott Horton Academy from some of the top people Scott knows in areas where they, like Scott himself, possess vast knowledge.
Again, this isn’t like school, when you had to be there at 8:00 in the morning. With the Scott Horton Academy app (or right on the website) you can listen or watch anytime, anywhere.
We’ll add new courses every year.
The War Party has dominated the various opinion-molding outlets: newspapers, magazines, cable TV news. But those are all dying — and if you look at the comments sections of their online versions, you discover how many people aren’t buying it anymore, if they ever did.
Bill Kristol never expected to inhabit this kind of world – a world in which the Right denounces warmongers (even using that very word), the Heritage Foundation mocks him, and YouTube forever hosts his humiliating debate loss to our own Scott Horton.
Kristol expected to continue indefinitely as a respected elder statesman on the Right, invited to address all the major gatherings and attend the wine-and-cheese receptions.
It isn’t working out that way – poetic justice indeed on behalf of all the widows and orphans Kristol is responsible for.
But just when you think they’re down and out, the neocons have a way of slithering back into power.
Beneath their Iran bluster, the neocons are weak. They’re not even making arguments anymore. “Tulsi is wrong,” and that’s it. So now is the time to strike.
The Scott Horton Academy is a 10-megaton bomb to the war propaganda that has insinuated its way into our classrooms and our headlines.
Remember that Scott labored in obscurity for years and years, telling unfashionable truths to anyone who would listen.
But as Emerson said, “If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”
Over the past few years, the world has finally caught up with Scott Horton. High-profile media outlets have begun to seek him out. His books feature endorsements by people of prominence and distinction. Huge cheers are heard when he enters a hotel ballroom for a keynote address.
This may not be the world Bill Kristol wants, but it sure is the world I want and the world you want, too, dear reader.
Our Courses
with more to come!
The Truth Behind the War on Terrorism by Scott Horton
The Reality of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Ramzy Baroud
40 Years of Hard-Hitting Investigative Journalism by James Bovard
Trail of Tears: U.S. Military Defeat Since 1945 by William Buppert
That world starts right here, with the Scott Horton Academy.
A man of Scott’s talent and intellect could have prospered in anything he chose to do. Instead, he stood his ground – for decades – at great personal and financial sacrifice, because he felt a moral obligation to put his knowledge at the service of the truly voiceless.
Now Scott is entrusting that knowledge to you.
For the first time in my life I feel like the warmongers could finally be put on the defensive.
Let’s do that, together.
Join the Scott Horton Academy of Foreign Policy and Freedom today!
One-Year Membership
- One-year access to all Scott Horton Academy courses, with more courses coming every year
Lifetime Membership
- Lifetime access to all Scott Horton Academy courses, with more courses coming every year
- Monthly live Q&A sessions with Scott
- Welcome kit shipped to your door, with a copy of Scott's book Enough Already, an Academy-branded notebook and pen set, and a handwritten note from Scott*
*US customers only
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Is there a free trial or money-back guarantee?
If for some reason you should be unsatisfied with the material, the Scott Horton Academy offers a no-questions-asked 30-day money-back guarantee.
Do I need prior knowledge, of foreign policy in particular, to benefit from the courses?
The courses assume no prior knowledge, and can benefit both the beginner and the advanced student.
How do I access the courses?
Courses at the Scott Horton Academy are available via the website as well as a mobile app to which members have access.
Whom is the Scott Horton Academy for?
The Scott Horton Academy is for anyone students, professionals, activists, and the
general public – interested in the causes of peace and freedom and who would like to
acquire a deep and substantial background in those subjects.
