Ackerman on Obama's Libyan Intervention

Abstract:

The lecture traces a series of political, bureaucratic, and military transformations that have, over the past forty years, transformed the American presidency into a potential platform for charismatic extremism and bureaucratic lawlessness. Watergate, Iran-Contra, and President Bush’s legitimation of torture may well be prelude to worse breakdowns in the future – unless the presidency can be fundamentally reformed.

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