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Episode 170: King Obama, King Trump: The Dangers of an Imperial Presidency (with Gene Healy)

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Channel: Libertarianism.org · 2017 · News & Politics

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Gene Healy joins us for a special Inauguration Day episode of Free Thoughts. We assess Barack Obama’s legacy as President of the United States and think about what we might expect in the coming years from President Trump.

What will Obama’s presidential legacy be? How will recent expansions of executive power under Obama affect the actions of a Donald Trump administration?

How hawkish has Obama’s foreign policy been? What happened to the anti-war movement during Obama’s presidency? Can we expect them to come back during a Trump administration?

Show Notes and Further Reading

Gene Healy’s article in the February 2017 issue of Reason is “Goodbye, Obama”.
https://reason.com/archives/2017/01/10/goodbye-obama

Other episodes of Free Thoughts that are mentioned in this episode:
America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power with Gene Healy
https://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts-podcast/americas-dangerous-devotion-executive-power
What Are the Risks of Terrorism? with John Mueller
https://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts/what-are-risks-terrorism

Healy mentions Jack Goldsmith and Matthew Waxman’s “The Legal Legacy of Light-Footprint Warfare” (2016).
https://lawfare.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/staging/2016/TWQ_Summer2016_Goldsmith-Waxman.pdf

He also mentions Party in the Street (2015) by Michael T. Heaney and Fabio Rojas, National Security and Double Government (2014) by Michael Glennon, and “The Two Presidencies” (1966) by Aaron Wildavsky.
https://www.amazon.com/Party-Street-Democratic-Cambridge-Contentious/dp/1107448808
https://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446
http://www.csuchico.edu/~ccturner/syllabi/TwoPresidencies.pdf

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