Paul Craig Roberts

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Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts on RT America
United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy
PresidentRonald Reagan
Preceded byCurtis A. Hessler
Succeeded byManuel H. Johnson
Personal details
Born (1939-04-03) April 3, 1939 (age 85)
Georgia Institute of Technology (BS)
OccupationEconomist, Author
Awards Legion of Honour
Websitehttps://www.paulcraigroberts.org/

Paul Craig Roberts (born April 3, 1939) is an American

U.S. foreign policy
.

Roberts received a doctorate from the

peer-reviewed papers
.

Since retiring, he has been accused of antisemitism and conspiracy theorizing by the Anti-Defamation League, Southern Poverty Law Center and others.

Early life and education

Paul Craig Roberts III was born in

Atlanta, Georgia on April 3, 1939,[1] to Paul Craig Roberts and Ellen Roberts (née Dryman).[2]

Roberts received a

supply side economics.[1]

Upon his return to the United States, Roberts enrolled in graduate courses at the

Oskar Lange's Theory of Socialist Planning and evolved what Roberts described as "seminal but neglected" ideas set-out by Michael Polanyi in his 1951 text The Logic of Liberty.[4][5]

On completion of his doctoral studies, Roberts spent a year on a research fellowship at the

Merton College.[1][6]

Career

Early career

Roberts began his career with teaching assignments at

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the University of New Mexico, Stanford University, and Tulane University.[1]
He was a professor of business administration and professor of economics at George Mason University and was the inaugural William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at Georgetown University, serving for 12 years. While a
United States Senator Orrin Hatch, as staff associate with the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, and as chief economist with the minority staff of the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Budget.[1][6] He has been credited as the primary author of the original draft of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981.[7]

During this time, he also contributed columns to

Harper's and The New York Times and served as associate editor of The Wall Street Journal's opinion page.[1][6][8]

Later career

In December 1980, along with

U.S. budget deficits led him into conflict with other Reagan-era officials such as Martin Feldstein and David Stockman.[1]

Roberts resigned in February 1982 to return to academia.[1][11] He was a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, from 1983 to 1993 was the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and, from 1993 to 1996, a distinguished fellow at the Cato Institute.[12][13][14]

From 1983 to 2019, Roberts served as a board director of nine different Value Line investment funds.[15] Between 1992 and 2006 he sat on the board of directors of A. Schulman and, according to the company, was its longest-serving independent director at the time of his retirement.[16]

Post-retirement writing and media

In the 2000s, Roberts wrote columns for

GlobalResearch, and he is frequently a guest on the podcasts, radio shows and video channels of the Council of Conservative Citizens, Max Keiser and 9/11 truther Kevin Barrett.[19] His own website publishes the work of Israel Shamir and Diana Johnstone.[19]

Work

Views

Economic policy

Roberts' commitment to supply-side economics has been a dominant feature of his career.[22] Writing in 1984, Thomas B. Silver said that adherents of supply-side economics had "no more formidable advocate in their ranks" than Roberts.[22] However, Roberts has expressed skepticism at the ability of government to lower taxes and decrease regulation, positing that the personal political ambition of officeholders tends to promote meddling in the economy, a criticism he has directed even at the former Reagan administration of which he was a part.[22]

Ron Hira of the Economic Policy Institute has described Roberts as one of the first prominent economists to "break from the orthodoxy" by opposing offshoring; Roberts believes that the practice is "lethal for America's future".[23] According to him, "a country that doesn't make anything doesn’t need a financial sector as there is nothing to finance".[24] In 2004, Paul Blustein in The Washington Post described him as heretical in relation to mainstream US economics for challenging the positive impact of free trade.[25]

Roberts is also a critic of the

Federal Reserve System and central banking in general.[26][19]

Society and culture

According to Roberts, "the West in general suffers from an excess of skepticism about its own values and accomplishments. We're being gobbled up by nihilism, itself the product of unbridled skepticism. It's hard to anchor on to the verities anymore".

U.S. Navy vessels, opining that gender integration would destroy the "ethos of comradeship" which, in his view, motivated wartime sacrifice more than "abstract concepts such as honor and country".[28]

In The New Color Line (1995), Roberts and co-author Lawrence M. Stratton argue that the Civil Rights Act was subverted by the bureaucrats who applied it.[29][30][31]

He believes the US is a police state.[19]

Drug policy

Writing in 1995, Roberts expressed skepticism at the

American conservatives to drug-policy reform was an example of "the right's myopia".[33]

Foreign policy

He is a strong opponent of neoconservatism, saying, "the neocons are the worst thing that ever happened to the United States. (They’re) really the scum of the earth… They should all be picked up and shipped out of the country. They all belong in Israel. That’s where they should be. Pick ’em up, ship ’em to Israel, revoke their passports."[19]

Roberts has stated his opposition to United States involvement in the post-2001

War in Afghanistan and to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[34] According to Roberts, "the Bush regime’s response to 9/11 and the Obama regime’s validation of this response have destroyed accountable, democratic government in the United States".[18] He believes the US is a puppet government of Israel.[19]

He supports Russian president

Syria civil war on a neocon plot, and argues that human rights NGOs working in Russia are part of a “US fifth column” working to undermine its government.[19]

Charges of conspiracy theorizing and antisemitism

Writing in

Putin worship".[35][36] Roberts has rejected the label and, in turn, described Jonathan Chait and Amy Knight as conspiracy theorists.[37]

The Anti-Defamation League describes Roberts as antisemitic:

Paul Craig Roberts [is] an anti-Semitic syndicated columnist... Since 2007, Roberts’ columns have increasingly focused on criticism of Israel and Jews and often conjure up anti-Semitic canards, making them popular with fringe publications on both the left and the right. Like many other contemporary anti-Semites, Roberts frames his anti-Semitism as criticism of Israel and the country’s supporters. His published views, however, go far beyond any criticism of Israel’s policies, regularly charging Israeli or Jewish control of the U.S. government and media and comparing Israel to the Nazi regime.[21]

In 2003, the

ISIL.[39]

Roberts has described himself as a "

9/11 Truth movement events.[34][40][41][19] Regarding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Roberts has written that "all evidence pointed to a plot by the Joint Chiefs, CIA, and Secret Service whose right-wing leaders had concluded that President Kennedy was too 'soft on communism'".[42] He has also stated that the Charlie Hebdo shooting has many of the characteristics of a false flag operation" motivated in part “to stifle the growing European sympathy for the Palestinians and to realign Europe with Israel”.[40][43] The Washington Post noted that in 2014 Roberts speculated on his blog that Ebola originated as a US bioweapon and this was picked up by North Korea's state media.[44]

Views on World War II and the Holocaust

In 2019, Roberts wrote in support of the views of Holocaust denier David Irving, asserting that "Irving, without any doubt the best historian of the European part of World War II, learned at his great expense that challenging myths does not go unpunished... I will avoid the story of how this came to be, but, yes, you guessed it, it was the Zionists".[45] Roberts added that "No German plans, or orders from Hitler, or from Himmler or anyone else have ever been found for an organized holocaust by gas and cremation of Jews... The "death camps" were in fact work camps. Auschwitz, for example, today a Holocaust museum, was the site of Germany's essential artificial rubber factory. Germany was desperate for a work force."[45]

Personal life

Roberts' wife, Linda, was born in the United Kingdom and professionally trained in ballet.[1] The couple met while he was at the University of Oxford.[1]

Honors and recognition

In 1981, Roberts was decorated with the United States Treasury Meritorious Service Award for "outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy".[13]

In 1987, he was invested into the French Legion of Honour at the rank of chevalier (knight) for his services to economics.[10][46]

In 2015, Roberts received the International Journalism Award for Political Analysis from Club de Periodistas de Mexico.[47]

In 2017, Roberts received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who's Who.[48]

Works

Books

Journal articles

Popular articles

References

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  37. ^ Roberts, Paul Craig. "The View of Russia in the West". paulcraigroberts.org. Paul Craig Roberts (official website). Archived from the original on January 20, 2019. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  38. ^ "'Cultural Marxism' Catching On". Southern Poverty Law Center. 2003-08-15. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  39. ^ Gerstenfeld, Manfred; Hagelberg, Leah (2016-09-21). "Israel and ISIS, the genesis of a new antisemitic motif". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  40. ^ a b Welch, Matt (15 January 2015). "Ron Paul Institute Publishes a Charlie Hebdo 'False Flag' Piece". Reason. Archived from the original on December 3, 2018. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  41. ^ "Charges Against We Are Change Leader Belie Group's Pacifist Image". Southern Poverty Law Center. 2010-09-01. Retrieved 2021-07-14. The roster for WAC's upcoming Sept. 9-12 9/11 conference in New York City reflects its continuing ability to attract A-list conspiracy theorists, while still bridging right and left. Speakers [include] Paul Craig Roberts, a right-wing columnist who writes for the racist VDARE.com website (named after the first English child born in America).
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  44. ^ Taylor, Adam (2014-12-01). "North Korea says U.S. created the Ebola outbreak". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
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  46. ^ "Légion d'honneur". Le Spectacle du Monde. No. 300. November 1987.
  47. ^ Mena, Carolina (March 13, 2015). "Por su cobertura a los casos Ayotzinapa e IPN, el Club de Periodistas premia a La Jornada". La Jornada. Archived from the original on January 14, 2019. Retrieved January 13, 2018.
  48. ^ "Paul Craig Roberts (Grad '67)". virginia.edu. University of Virginia. Retrieved January 13, 2019.

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