"Conservatives question government programs. War is a government program. If they hope to retain a modicum of philosophical integrity, conservatives will have to include a critique of the state's warfare machine in their case against its welfare apparatus."
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"Praying to the Military Moloch," Economic Policy Journal, June 6, 2014.
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