War and Foreign Policy
The Economic Culture of Boom and Bust
Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.
(29:32)
Despotism Loves Company: The Story of Roosevelt and Stalin
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (38:46)
Origins of War: Civil War and World War I
John Denson argues wars are sold with patriotic myths—then used to centralize power—and that honest history is the antidote to the “imperial presidency” and permanent war.
The Rise of the American Empire
One of the problems of the American Empire is that there is a lot of empire denial going around. You cannot want to rule the world and yet say that what you value is laissez-faire economics (like National Review does).