Some of the most recognized voices in American writing and academia contribute to this provocative forum concerning the terrorist crisis and its causes. Moderated by Lewis H. Lapham, this timely debate features conversations with noted author and vocal critic of U. S. foreign policy, Gore Vidal; historian Barton Bernstein of Stanford University; economist and historian Robert Higgs of the Independent Institute; and Thomas Gale Moore of the Hoover Institution. Voicing opinions counter to those espoused by the present administration and seldom heard in mainstream media, they discuss the definition of terrorism, the impact of U. S. foreign policy on the terrorist crisis, and the long-term significance of the September 11 attacks. Also examined are the potential curtailment of basic civil liberties, the effects of a global U. S. military presence, and alternatives that would lessen the terrorist threat. This title concludes with a lively question and answer session.

Understanding America's Terrorist Crisis: What Should Be Done (Conceived in Liberty, Vol 1)

History

Higgs, Robert

Moore, Thomas Gale

Bernstein, Barton

VIDAL,GORE

Americas

Independent Institute

Review\n"Gore Vidal is never less than stimulating." —Los Angeles Times\nSome of the most recognized voices in American writing and academia contribute to this provocative forum concerning the terrorist crisis and its causes. Moderated by Lewis H. Lapham, this timely debate features conversations with noted author and vocal critic of U.S. foreign policy Gore Vidal; historian Barton Bernstein of Stanford University; economist and historian Robert Higgs of the Independent Institute; and Thomas Gale Moore of the Hoover Institution. Voicing opinions contrary to those espoused by the present administration and seldom heard in mainstream media, they discuss the definition of terrorism, the impact of U.S. foreign policy on the terrorist crisis, and the long-term significance of the September 11 attacks. Also examined are the potential curtailment of basic civil liberties, the effects of a global U.S. military presence, alternatives that would lessen the terrorist threat, and a lively question and answer session.

Understanding America's Terrorist Crisis: What Should Be Done?

Great political and philosophical debates regarding the problematic results of central planning in the 20th century are presented in this volume of essays from classic liberal thinkers, such as Adam Smith and John Locke, and modern liberals of various persuasions. After discussing such issues as constitutionalism and security, freedom and the moral society, and cognitive individualism, the modern upholders of classical liberalism respond to their modern critics. This important collection will be of great interest to politicians, scientists, philosophers, and historians for its contemporary articulation of the tenets of classical liberalism.

The Challenge of Liberty: Classical Liberalism Today

Agricultural subsidies in grains, cotton, milk, sugar, tobacco, honey, wool, and peanuts are analyzed in this examination of U.S. farm policy. Looking at such programs as food stamps, crop insurance, subsidized credit, trade credit, trade subsidies and import restrictions, conservation, agricultural research, and taxation, this historical perspective argues that these subsidies ultimately redistribute wealth to powerful agricultural interests who use their political clout to advance their economic interests at the expense of the general public. This analysis of government farm programs will appeal to professors and students who study agriculture; people affected by government farm policies; public officials, and businesses affected by agricultural policy such as those in food service, retail, and distribution.

Plowshares & Pork Barrels: The Political Economy of Agriculture (Independent Studies in Political Economy)

Business & Money

Rucker, Randall R.

Pasour Jr., E. C.

Industries

This book analyzes the effects of farm policies and shows how they are responsible for the high and rising cost of food and the ruin of the small farmer.

Agriculture and the State: Market Processes and Bureaucracy (Independent Studies in Political Economy)

Economics

This is an authoritative study of the second amendment, using history and current-day analysis. It is one of the only scholarly works on the subject, but has proven widely accessible. Halbrook traces the origins of the Second Amendment back to ancient Greece and Rome, and then through the “freemen” movement in 18th-century England and France. He demonstrates that the framers of the Constitution were conscious of such history when they drafted the Second Amendment, and that the Second Amendment was clearly intended to allow possession of firearms not just for defense of personal life and property but also to prevent government infringement of human liberties. His meticulous, thorough scholarship demonstrates that the right to bear arms is as fundamental a right under the Constitution as freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right (Independent Studies in Political Economy)

Stephen P. Halbrook

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is one of the most powerful of federal regulatory agencies, if not the most powerful, regulating about 25 per cent of all consumer goods in the United States. It routinely makes decisions that determine the well-being of millions of people in the United States and around the world concerning foods, drugs, medical devices, and dietary supplements. Although the FDA was created to protect the public, could its actual operations have the opposite effect, causing enormous harm to public health? Assembling the work of three outstanding scholars, Hazardous to Our Health? provides a lucid and comprehensive examination of the FDA: How has the FDA acquired its vast powers? What have been the effects of the FDA? Why has the FDA failed to achieve its goals? Who actually benefits and loses from the FDA? How has the FDA defended itself against criticism? What real alternatives exist to the FDA? and much more. Hazardous to Our Health? goes beyond mere assumptions, conjectures, and political predilections to examine the facts and findings of independent authorities. Providing far more than just an account of the past and a warning for the future, this powe

Hazardous to Our Health?: FDA Regulation of Health Care Products (Independent Studies in Political Economy)

Rubin, Paul H.

Hansen, Ronald W.

Rules & Procedures

wealthy people would not escape punishment

Victims' Rights, Restitution, and Retribution (Independent Policy Reports Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Evers, Williamson M.

Politics & Government

Exploring the politics and morality that pulled the United States into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, this collection of essays, stories, and satirical pieces lambasts the highest officials in the executive branch for incompetence and moral blindness. Analyses of both wars and the crisis following 9/11 portray the conflicts as opportunities for special interests to entrench themselves in the U.S. government at the expense of U.S. citizens’ civil liberties and tax dollars, and the lives of numerous Afghan and Iraqi non-combatants. Pulling no punches, this work holds George W. Bush and members of his cabinet accountable for acts that would have been prosecutable were the defendants in question not government entities.

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Regulation of Carcinogens (Independent Policy Report)

Wildavsky Aaron Wildavsky

Health, Fitness & Dieting

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