*Violent Saviors*

That is the new William Easterly book, and the subtitle is The West’s Conquest of the Rest.  I liked this book very much, but found the title and also book jacket and descriptions misleading.  I think of this work as a full-throated examination and study of the classical liberal anti-imperialist tradition.  We have been needing such a thing for a long time.  It is not that I expected Easterly to be poorly informed, but it amazes me how well he knows this material from a historical point of view.  A lengthy (and good) discussion of E.D. Morel!

So recommended, and here’s hoping these traditions find some new legs and less crazy adherents.