The following is the introduction to The Failure of America’s Foreign Wars, published by The Future of Freedom Foundation in 1996.
The twentieth century has been the era of the social engineer. Regardless of the labels ...
How often do we look at those around us and think to ourselves: How absurd, dangerous, misguided, or foolish is so much of their conduct? How often do we then think to ourselves: If only they would listen to ...
To Destroy a City: Strategic Bombing and Its Human Consequences in World War II
by Hermann Knell (Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2003); 373 pages; $32.50.
On the night of July 27, 1943, 728 Allied bombers arrived over the German city ...
The war on terrorism and the war on Iraq have become the defining characteristics of the Bush administration and the Republican Party in general. Indeed, without the current war hysteria, President Bush and the Republicans have nothing to stand ...
The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought
by Jerry Z. Muller (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002); 487pages; $30.
In the 1920s and 1930s, the well-known Italian classical-liberal historian Guglielmo Ferrero attempted to explain the reasons for the ...
The Israeli government has been taking the position that any hope for a permanent peace settlement with the Palestinians must be preceded by a number of preconditions. One of the leading preconditions is that the Palestinian ...
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Also making a case for an imperial role for the United States is Deepak Lal, professor of international development studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Lal has long been a leading opponent ...
Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington’s Futile War on Drugs in Latin America
by Ten Galen Carpenter (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); 282 pages; $24.95.
The U.S. government’s war on drugs has been going on since 1914, when new federal regulations were imposed ...
War is never profitable for either the victor or the vanquished nation. It imposes various costs on the people of the combatant nations. First, and most obvious, war costs some of them ...
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Fifty years ago, the classical liberal author and journalist Garet Garrett published a collection of essays called The People's Pottage (1953). In the midst of the Korean War, he tried to persuade the American ...
