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David A. Stockman

Former Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget

David Stockman served as a U.S. Representative from the state of Michigan from 1977 to 1981. He was appointed director of the Office of Management and Budget by President Ronald Reagan and served in that capacity from 1981 to 1985.

After leaving government, Mr. Stockman joined the investment banking firm Salomon Brothers and, later, the private equity firm Blackstone Group. He founded Heartland Industrial Partners, a private-equity firm, in 1999. Today, he writes at “David Stockman’s Contra Corner.”

Mr. Stockman attended Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of “The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed” and more recently “The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America.”

Articles by David A. Stockman

Annals of War: How Woodrow Wilson Cost Europe a Century – Part II

Did American intervention in WWI help destabilize the European continent?

February 13, 2015

Annals of War: How Woodrow Wilson Cost Europe a Century — Part I

Did American intervention in WWI help destabilize the European continent?

February 12, 2015

Why Does the U.S. Maintain Its Bellicose Level of Defense Spending?

A former U.S. budget director asks why the United States continues to gear up for global war.

June 25, 2014

WWI and the United States: Woodrow Wilson’s Wisdom or Folly?

Would Europe have become a better place faster if the United States had not intervened in World War I?

June 24, 2014

Yes We Can: How Eisenhower Wrestled Down the U.S. Warfare State

A former war hero practices fiscal rectitude at the Pentagon.

April 29, 2014