2022-02-24
1 小时 2 分钟So there's this idea, unlike the populist right,
that we tried libertarianism, and now woke us to take it over.
And I'm like, OK, when did Republicans repeal the Civil Rights Act?
When did that happen?
When did they defund public education?
No, you actually haven't done anything close to libertarianism.
And now you're making libertarianism the scapegoat for all these negative trends.
Today I'm speaking with Richard Hanania,
who is the president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology and the author of the new book,
Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy.
So Richard first, can you just summarize the book briefly before we get into questions?
Sure.
So the argument in my book is it has two real audiences.
So first, people who study international relations,
political scientists, there's something in there for them.
And there's also, I think,
something in there for people who are just interested in American foreign policy more generally.
So the way that academics tend to study foreign policy, and this is a simplification,
but if you're going to have to generalize about it.
the way sort of it's understood in political science in the field of international relations.