Paul Gottfried shows that democracy has not proven to be peaceful as previously advertised but, in fact, has been extremely war-like. It is big government which, in spite of being democratic, causes coercive egalitarianism at home and fuels imperialism abroad.
Recorded at the Mises Institute’s “Costs of War” conference in May 1994 in Auburn, Alabama: https://mises.org/library/the-costs-war
Paul Gottfried is an American political theorist and intellectual historian. He is the former Horace Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, and editor in chief of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.