With War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Police, Laurence Vance, a relentless critic of the state and its wars, has updated his already extensive writings on war and empire to include new material in this volume not included in earlier collections of essays.
These essays, although organized under seven headings, have one underlying theme: opposition to the warfare state that robs us of our liberty, our money, and in some cases our life. Conservatives who decry the welfare state while supporting the warfare state are terribly inconsistent. The two are inseparable. Libertarians who are opposed to war on principle, but support the state’s bogus “war on terrorism,” even as they remain silent about the U.S. global empire, are likewise contradictory.
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Laurence M. Vance, Ph.D., is the Director of the Francis Wayland Institute and an Adjunct Instructor in Accounting at Pensacola Junior College. He holds degrees in history, theology, accounting, and economics.
If there is one thing that shows that Americans live in a nanny state it is the maze of alcohol laws, rules, and regulations that exist in every state.
Forget everything that conservatives say about individual liberty, personal freedom, property rights, the Constitution, federalism, capitalism, limited government, the free market, and free enterprise. They don’t mean a word of it because they are such incorrigible drug warriors.
The passage of Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” has once again raised the issue of tax loopholes. Murray Rothbard referred to the idea of a tax loophole that needs to be closed as a great economic myth.
