The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril by Eugene Jarecki (New York: Free Press, 2008); 336 pages.
Many supporters of Barack Obama are disappointed that he has not reversed the war policies of ...
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (New York: New Press, 2010); 312 pages.
Many Americans deny that their country is home to any serious problem of institutional racism. Segregation was abolished generations ...
A free society is impossible under an empire. Even the most just war you can imagine is a disaster for liberty and prosperity, as Ludwig von Mises pointed out. An unjust war amounts to murder, mayhem, and mass destruction. ...
“Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward,” said George W. Bush on September 11, 2011. “And freedom will be defended.”
President Obama apparently agrees that the U.S. government’s response to 9/11 has been to defend freedom. This ...
AWOL Army private Naser Jason Abdo, a Muslim, has been arrested for plans to attack the Fort Hood Army base in Texas. Two years ago, another Muslim American soldier was arrested for killing 13 people at that base. These ...
The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse edited by Marjorie Cohn (New York University Press: 2011), 342 pages.
When I was a child in Reagan’s America, a common theme in Cold War rhetoric was that the Soviets tortured ...
The Transportation Security Administration is finally getting some of the bad publicity it deserves. We read about an elderly woman forced to remove her adult diaper to go through the screening process. We learn about a mentally disabled passenger ...
After the 2008 financial collapse, many of us called on politicians to let the market correct itself. The government’s expansion of the housing sector and the Fed’s artificially low interest rates caused an unsustainable and thus ultimately destructive boom, ...
Washington Rules: Americas Path to Permanent War by Andrew J. Bacevich
(New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010), 286 pages.
During the last decade, left-liberals accused the controversial Bush administration of a wickedness, arrogance, and incompetence that supposedly set that presidency apart from ...
Dismantling the Empire: America’s Last Best Hope
by Chalmers Johnson (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010); 212 pages.
Most Americans would very likely deny that their government is a global empire, horribly destructive to national security, liberty, and wealth. But ...
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