CHRISTOPHER J. COYNE is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and coeditor of The Independent Review, professor of economics at George Mason University, associate director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center, and coeditor of the Review of Austrian Economics. He is also the author of In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace (Independent Institute, 2022).

ABIGAIL R. HALL is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and associate professor of economics at the University of Tampa. She and Christopher Coyne also coauthored Manufacturing Militarism: US Government Propaganda and the War on Terror; Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of US Militarism; and, also with Anne R. Bradley, The Political Economy of Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the War on Terror.