Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: The nature of the state and future challenges Bigger Government: The Future of Government Expenditure in Advanced Economies Marc Robinson Arolla Press, 2020 https://biggergovernment.com The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy David Graeber London: Melville House, 2015 The Entrepreneurial State – Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths Mariana Mazzucato, […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] 1 2 In London, Frum will be meeting up with his old friend and director of Policy Exchange, Dean Godson.1 3 Godson was a member of the Reagan Administration for which Frum campaigned as a volunteer in 1980. Godson, the son of former US labour attaché in London Joe Godson,1 4 was himself memorably […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] American conservatism ‘has delivered much more harm than good, from the Iraq War to the financial crisis to the Trump presidency’. (p. 6) Frum admits that Nixon, Reagan and both the Bushes ‘may sometimes have drawn power from deep and dark energies in the American soul’, but they were Paul McGuire and Troy Anderson, […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: […] the CIA, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), was heavily involved with the IRC, as was William Casey, who went on to become CIA director under Ronald Reagan. Of particular interest is John Whitehead, a former cochair of Goldman Sachs, who was IRC treasurer from 1960 until 1979, when he became its president, a […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[PDF file]: […] inaction on climate change.’ p. 75 ‘In 1989, a small group of neoconservatives—both Democrats and Republicans—who had been influential strategists in the Defense Department during the Ford, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush administration came together to produce the Defense Planning Guidance report, which advocated US military dominance around the world. Key among the […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] profits in the US (and most of the West) has meant that such prohibitions have been half-hearted at best. In any event since the installation of Ronald Reagan as POTUS, followed by William Jefferson Clinton a few actors later, the few controls – even public condemnation – have been eliminated. To the extent it […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: […] and that the EU are responsible for the growing use of food banks in the UK and has embraced the economic legacy of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan (both claims are false). It’s hard not to think that his audience, initially heartened by his appearance, would have concluded that he didn’t really know much […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: […] promoted to Admiral in 1977, and served as Director of the National Security Agency under President Jimmy Carter. He was appointed CIA Deputy Director by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. Now 87 years old and leading a very active retirement, Admiral Inman explained 3 what had happened after the 1976 meeting with Dr Mitchell. […]