How Executive Power Can Dismantle the Deep State

Tags: Politics, Strategy, U.S. History

03/25/2025 Patrick Newman

Can executive power shrink the state instead of growing it? In this thought-provoking lecture, Patrick Newman offers a Jacksonian playbook for dismantling the deep state in our time.

The Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Steve and Cassandra Torello.

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