Brandan P. Buck, a foreign policy research fellow at the Cato Institute, holds a Ph.D. in history from George Mason University. He served in the United States Army from 2001 until 2005 and worked in the intelligence community from 2009 until 2014.
Brandan P. Buck
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How 'National Security' Came Unmoored From Americans' Actual Security
The turning point was the New Deal.
McCarthyism, Past—and Present?
Clay Risen's Red Scare book wrongly frames it as an exclusively conservative hysteria.
The F-Word and Its Consequences
In a new book, left-wing writers debate whether America is going fascist.
Rachel Maddow's Prequel Is a Deceptively Framed History of the Radical Right
The book blames foreign subversives for ideas long rooted in American life.
