On Monday, April 23, Hampden-Sydney College hosts “Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism” author and professor Christopher Coyne as he discusses a new aspect of the symbiotic relationship between foreign interventions and domestic politics.

In the lecture “Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism,” Christopher Coyne offers alarming insight into incidents such as the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri and the Snowden case. These cases, Coyne argues, tell a common story about contemporary foreign policy and its impact on our civil liberties.

Christopher Coyne is associate director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Economics, Philosophy, and Politics, and F. A. Harper Professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. In addition, he is also an associate professor of economics and director of graduate studies in the economics department at George Mason University. Coyne specializes in Austrian economics, economic development, emerging democracies, postwar and disaster reconstruction, political economy and social change.

The lecture, free and open to the public, begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Chairman’s Room of Settle Hall and is part of Hampden-Sydney’s continuing commitment to the intellectual and cultural enrichment of the Southside community. This program has been organized by the Center for the Study of Political Economy. Refreshments will be served.