War and Foreign Policy
The Economic Culture of Boom and Bust
Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.
(29:32)
War and Economics in 19th-Century America
Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.
(30:02)
War, State, Economics, and Hypocrisy
Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.
(22:15)
Despotism Loves Company: The Story of Roosevelt and Stalin
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (38:46)
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).
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.