Shadi Hamid

Book Review: Shadi Hamid’s Excellent “The Case for American Power”

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What if the United States were really and truly a low-tax country whereby legislators, bound and dedicated to the Founders’ deep skepticism about government, made it their legislative aim to severely limit the flow of dollars to the U.S. Treasury? The question is an idealistic one, and for obvious reasons: politicians love that people […]

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Book Review: Shadi Hamid’s ‘The Problem of Democracy’

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Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane has always been of the view that “democracy” must be extraordinarily limited. It should be a device for removing highly objectionable people from national offices like that of the President, but not much more. As Crane explained it long ago in Forbes, Americans should go to bed early on election night.

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