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Foreign Policy Gnosticism: The Appeal to the Black Box of “Our Leaders Know More”
21 minutes Posted Sep 14, 2026 at 3:46 pm.
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Ignorance is treated as a reason to trust the state rather than a reason to withhold judgment about its exercise of coercion. To assume that the state’s unknown information is correct and justifying is therefore to err on the side of violence.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/foreign-policy-gnosticism-appeal-black-box-our-leaders-know-more