FMI Public Speaker Series – Manufacturing Militarism – Christopher Coyne
Channel: Free Market Institute
Date: 2022-10-05

Christopher J. Coyne, F.A. Harper Professor of Economics for the Mercatus Center and Professor of Economics at George Mason University, delivered an FMI Public Speaker Series lecture at Texas Tech University on September 22, 2022. 

Prof. Coyne discussed his recent book, Manufacturing Militarism: U.S. Government Propaganda in the War on Terror (2021), and presented arguments for how democratic governments utilize their monopoly on classified national security information to propagandize their citizens in order to enable actions that benefit the politically elite at the expense of average citizens.