9/11 militarized law enforcement and made every American a suspect
While a country grieved, a surveillance state bloomed and began eating away at our basic Constitutional liberties.
Christopher Coyne is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center. He is the co-author, with Abigail R. Hall, of two books: Manufacturing Militarism: U.S.Government Propaganda in the War on Terror (Stanford University Press, 2021 ); and Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism (Stanford University Press, 2018)
While a country grieved, a surveillance state bloomed and began eating away at our basic Constitutional liberties.