My article, First World, Third World, was originally published at Liberty Unbound.

In this essay, I examine whether the United States should remain the world’s policeman, what American power has meant for the Third World, and why Western intervention often produces both stability and unintended damage. The deeper question is whether societies without the moral and cultural foundations of civilization can be remade from outside—or whether American influence merely postpones and enlarges the problems it tries to solve.

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