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T. Hunt Tooley

Hunt Tooley is A.M. Pate, Jr., Professor of History at Austin College. He received his Ph.D. in history at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Great War: Western Front and Home Front.

His articles and reviews have appeared in such scholarly journals as History Teaching Review Yearbook, The Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, The Independent Review, Central European History, The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, The American Historical Review, and History: Reviews of New Books.

Articles

Why Pete Hegseth Might Not Get Confirmed as Secretary of Defense

12/06/2024 Power & Market T. Hunt Tooley

An analysis of past US secretaries of war and defense gives us some insight into the nature of the relationships within the “military-industrial complex.”

American Imperialism and Our Bipartisan Warfare State

08/30/2024 The Misesian T. Hunt Tooley

The growth of the state through war included not only developing new technologies for making war, but also coming up with new financial techniques such as inflation and other wealth transfers to the government, which made the increasingly expensive wars possible.

Was the French Revolution Good or Bad?

10/23/2023 Mises Wire T. Hunt Tooley

There are so many parts of the Revolution, so many stages, and so many protagonists, that we are sometimes confused as to how to interpret it. Historians tend to explain the Revolution according to their predilections, or even their heroes.

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Media

Engines of Destruction in the Great War: Artillery, Society, War Finance, and the Emergence of the Total State

05/16/2025 T. Hunt Tooley

Hunt Tooley reveals how artillery, arms dealers, and bankers turned war into profitable, prolonged carnage.

To Smoke or Not to Smoke: The Cigarette Economy in Postwar Germany, 1945–48

07/25/2023 T. Hunt Tooley

Postwar Germany was occupied, in ruins, with an economy in chaos. Germans were reduced to using cigarettes supplied by American GIs as money.

Panel: “Prospects for Peace in the Age of Trump”

04/09/2017 T. Hunt Tooley Phil Giraldi Daniel McAdams

A panel discussion and question-and-answer period featuring Hunt Tooley, Phil Giraldi, and Daniel McAdams.

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