Theater: The Bottom Line

capitalism, the Federal Reserve, the global economy, the U.S. military. We learn that the American people are deeply vested in each of these, but can- not possibly understand all of their intricacies. Greider aims not only to “explain” these systems, but to indict them as manipulative, self-serving, secretive, and ultimately bad for your average Joe and America in general. Greider is a liberal populist and an intelligent writer, an erudite Michael Moore without the camera.

His newest offering is an occasionally on-target diatribe against the U.S. defense industry sandwiched between some reasonable reflections on the state of national-security policy and the American role in the world’s strategic affairs. As in his previous books, Greider describes his subject clearly, if in a rather paranoid and conspiratorial way.

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Rod Dreher

capitalism, the Federal Reserve, the global economy, the U.S. military. We learn that the American people are deeply vested in each of these, but can- not possibly understand all of their intricacies. Greider aims not only to “explain” these systems, but to indict them as manipulative, self-serving, secretive, and ultimately bad for your average Joe and America in general. Greider is a liberal populist and an intelligent writer, an erudite Michael Moore without the camera.

His newest offering is an occasionally on-target diatribe against the U.S. defense industry sandwiched between some reasonable reflections on the state of national-security policy and the American role in the world’s strategic affairs. As in his previous books, Greider describes his subject clearly, if in a rather paranoid and conspiratorial way.