Americans appear largely bystanders at the spectacle 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.

“In How America Was Lost , Paul Craig Roberts focuses his keen eye and sharp mind on the deterioration of government accountability and morality amidst the rise of hypocrisy and recklessness in the wake of 9/11. Through the tangle of wars, aggression, decimation of privacy, Wall Street protectionism and debt creation since, Roberts is relentless in his well-reasoned criticisms of US leadership from an economic and military standpoint.” NOMI PRINS, Author, All the Presidents’ Bankers