How America Was Lost

 Even as the view of America as a rogue state consolidates abroad, 

Americans appear largely bystanders at the spectacle of their 

government running amok. People forget the myriad instances of their 

government's flouting of the Constitution and international legal norms--

if ever they were aware of them in the first place--accepting to live in 

the increasingly pernicious "new normal" with little protest.  

This remarkable anthology of columns documents and reminds us of 

the extraordinary developments that, in their accumulation, have led to 

the destruction of accountable and moral government in the US.  

Few American commentators have cut more clearly through the 

deepening deceit, hypocrisy and outright criminality that has infested 

official Washington since 9/11 than Paul Craig Roberts.  His scathing 

critique sheds much-needed light on the country's impending 

nightmare--economic collapse, internal repression, ongoing wars, and 

rising rejection by friends and foes alike.

How America Was Lost marks Roberts as one of the most prescient and 

courageous moral commentators in America today.