A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Georgian Forum August 25, 2008Robert Higgs Well, maybe it’s not really so funny, especially if someone you care about has been […]
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Author: Robert Higgs
CENTCOM’s Master Plan and U.S. Global Hegemony
CENTCOM’s Master Plan and U.S. Global Hegemony July 22, 2008Robert Higgs Many people deny that the U.S. government presides over a global empire. If you speak of U.S. imperialism, they […]
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The “Respectable” People Continue to Make War on the Rest of Us
The “Respectable” People Continue to Make War on the Rest of Us July 11, 2008Robert Higgs Scarcely any critical commentator on the “war on drugs” has failed to remark on […]
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Truncating the Antecedents
Truncating the Antecedents: How Americans Have Been Misled about World War II by Robert Higgs Whereas historians obsessively trace every event’s causal lineage further and further into the past, nonhistorians […]
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Military Spending / GDP = Nonsense for Budget Policy Making
Military Spending / GDP = Nonsense for Budget Policy Making by Robert Higgs If we were inclined to borrow a phrase from Ronald Reagan, we might reproach the Pentagon bigwigs […]
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No More Pentagon Budget Games
No More Pentagon Budget Games: Real security needs, not an arbitrary baseline, should drive the numbers by Robert Higgs Oakland, Calif.—Despite his many shortcomings, former President Jimmy Carter had one […]
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There’s a Time and a Place for a Beanball
There’s a Time and a Place for a Beanball by Robert Higgs According to a February 28 Associated Press report, “The FBI took up the Roger Clemens case Thursday, told […]
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What Does the Administration’s Leaked Mea Culpa on Iraq Portend?
Fear: The Foundation of Every Government’s Power by Robert Higgs In the dreary march of no-news stories about the war in Iraq, little changes from day to day, or even […]
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Global Struggle against Violent Extremism: Marketing Gimmick or Ominous Turn?
Global Struggle against Violent Extremism: Marketing Gimmick or Ominous Turn? by Robert Higgs Say good-bye to the GWOT and, so far as the Bush administration is concerned, good riddance, too. […]
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How Many Divisions Does the Pope Have?
How Many Divisions Does the Pope Have? by Robert Higgs Joseph Stalin is famously said to have asked an adviser, dismissively, “How many divisions does the Pope have?” Had the […]
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