Doug Bandow
Contributor
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, specializing in foreign policy and civil liberties.
He worked as special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and editor of the political magazine Inquiry.
He writes regularly for leading publications such as Fortune magazine, National Interest, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Times.
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Trump Uses NATO Summit to Reinforce Mercantilist Policy
NATO members are finally taking more responsibility for their own defense. Using those security commitments to squeeze trading partners threatens markets and undermines diplomacy.
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Trump Administration’s Foolish Educational Autarky: United States Should Welcome Chinese Students
Hosting foreign students builds our economic and scientific edge, but exposing young people to our liberty and opportunity makes the whole world better off.
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Uncle Sam, Addicted to Debt, Faces Future Military Bills
“When the inevitable crisis hits, it will be even more difficult to reach a rational solution. Better to start now with the misnamed Defense Department.” ~Doug Bandow
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China is Scaring Away Investors
“Xi expects business as well as people to serve the CCP. As authoritarian controls metastasize throughout the economy, everyone suffers.” ~Doug Bandow
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How Will America’s Borrow and Spend Politicians Pay for an Imperial Foreign Policy?
“Serious efforts to control deficits and debt will require a series of politically painful decisions. The only way to make such unpalatable fiscal sacrifices possible is to kill all the sacred cows, including the Pentagon.” ~ Doug Bandow
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Apres Biden, Le Deluge: When the Republican Party Gives Up Entitlement Reform
“Even the Biden Treasury Department labels the present financial path as ‘unsustainable.’ Refusing to look at so-called entitlements, most importantly Medicare and Social Security, ensures growing outlays, deficits, and debt.” ~ Doug Bandow
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When Federal Interest Payments Come to Exceed the Military Budget: Time to Stop Defending the Rest of the World
“The US economy no longer can sustain a policy of endless war. Rising interest rates highlight the dismal state of Uncle Sam’s finances. Fiscal reality, as well as good sense, tells the US to focus on its own security.” ~ Doug Bandow
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A Secret War in the Making: Americans Should Not Die to Defend Taiwan
“The better strategy would be aid short of war. Today the US and democratic states should be making conflict less likely by arming Taiwan, insisting that it take its own defense seriously.” ~ Doug Bandow
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The Greatest Threat to World Peace: North Korea’s Kim Jong-un?
“The best way to enhance America’s security is for its defense-dependents to graduate and take care of themselves and their own regions. With the US off the peninsula, Pyongyang wouldn’t much care about affairs in Washington.” ~ Doug Bandow
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America’s Allies Should Fear Abandonment
“America’s major allies, in the main, are worthy friends: liberal, democratic societies and valuable economic partners with deep cultural and historical connections to the US. That doesn’t entitle them to a cheap ride on the American people.” ~ Doug Bandow
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Trump Uses NATO Summit to Reinforce Mercantilist Policy
NATO members are finally taking more responsibility for their own defense. Using those security commitments to squeeze trading partners threatens markets and undermines diplomacy.
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Trump Administration’s Foolish Educational Autarky: United States Should Welcome Chinese Students
Hosting foreign students builds our economic and scientific edge, but exposing young people to our liberty and opportunity makes the whole world better off.
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Uncle Sam, Addicted to Debt, Faces Future Military Bills
“When the inevitable crisis hits, it will be even more difficult to reach a rational solution. Better to start now with the misnamed Defense Department.” ~Doug Bandow
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China is Scaring Away Investors
“Xi expects business as well as people to serve the CCP. As authoritarian controls metastasize throughout the economy, everyone suffers.” ~Doug Bandow
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How Will America’s Borrow and Spend Politicians Pay for an Imperial Foreign Policy?
“Serious efforts to control deficits and debt will require a series of politically painful decisions. The only way to make such unpalatable fiscal sacrifices possible is to kill all the sacred cows, including the Pentagon.” ~ Doug Bandow
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Apres Biden, Le Deluge: When the Republican Party Gives Up Entitlement Reform
“Even the Biden Treasury Department labels the present financial path as ‘unsustainable.’ Refusing to look at so-called entitlements, most importantly Medicare and Social Security, ensures growing outlays, deficits, and debt.” ~ Doug Bandow
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When Federal Interest Payments Come to Exceed the Military Budget: Time to Stop Defending the Rest of the World
“The US economy no longer can sustain a policy of endless war. Rising interest rates highlight the dismal state of Uncle Sam’s finances. Fiscal reality, as well as good sense, tells the US to focus on its own security.” ~ Doug Bandow
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A Secret War in the Making: Americans Should Not Die to Defend Taiwan
“The better strategy would be aid short of war. Today the US and democratic states should be making conflict less likely by arming Taiwan, insisting that it take its own defense seriously.” ~ Doug Bandow
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The Greatest Threat to World Peace: North Korea’s Kim Jong-un?
“The best way to enhance America’s security is for its defense-dependents to graduate and take care of themselves and their own regions. With the US off the peninsula, Pyongyang wouldn’t much care about affairs in Washington.” ~ Doug Bandow
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America’s Allies Should Fear Abandonment
“America’s major allies, in the main, are worthy friends: liberal, democratic societies and valuable economic partners with deep cultural and historical connections to the US. That doesn’t entitle them to a cheap ride on the American people.” ~ Doug Bandow