Bob Higgs on the “Emergency Men” & Magical Thinking about America Foreign Policy

By Greg Ransom, on March 6th, 2011%

Bob Higgs reviews Derek Leebaert’s Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy from Korea to Afghanistan. Quotable:

Leebaert focuses on several dimensions of what he calls the foreign policy makers’ reliance on “magic” ― a collection of assumptions and convictions about what the United States government can and should do in its dealings . . . → Read More: Bob Higgs on the “Emergency Men” & Magical Thinking about America Foreign Policy

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