Sheldon Richman on the Boomerang Theory of Freedom-Destroying Policies

The late
Chalmers Johnson, the great analyst of the American empire, warned
that if Americans didn’t give up the empire, they would come to
live under it. We’ve had many reasons to take his warning
seriously; indeed, several important thinkers have furnished sound
theoretical and empirical evidence for the proposition. Now come
two scholars who advance our understanding of how an
interventionist foreign policy eventually comes home. If
libertarians needed further grounds for acknowledging that a
distinctive libertarian foreign policy exists, writes Sheldon
Richman, Christopher Coyne and Abigail Hall at George Mason
University have provided it.

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