Mises Daily
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David Gordon
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In Praise of Empires: Globalization and Order , by Deepak Lal (Palgrave, 2004) Deepak Lal writes as a convinced advocate of American Empire. But in the course of the book, he undermines his own reasons for defending imperialism and offers a devastating criticism of democratic imperialism and of Woodrow Wilson’s Utopianism. Lal’s basic argument for