War and Foreign Policy

Catholic political thought had come a long way from the Spanish scholastics.

It should come as a monumental embarrassment to future social scientists to observe that their mainstream predecessors were worse than useless for

Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu (1585–1642), considered the mass of Frenchmen simply as animals to be prodded or coerced in ways that

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor made war inevitable. But the attack was not Roosevelt's reason for going to war. It was his excuse.

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank

Collectivism and interventionism emphasize the importance of national boundaries.

"But if peace meant disaster to the company, it also taught it an important lesson. A company that manufactured more rifles than it could sell to hunters, or to its own government, must seek foreign business."

She seems to me dubiously to assimilate international law to domestic law.Scarry has in any case given us in her excellent and provocative book an indictment of recent American policy difficult to answer.

"The financial burdens of hegemony are difficult to overestimate. "