# Top Gun

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/pop-locke/top-gun>

**By** Paul Musgrave, Brandon Valeriano, Landry Ayres

**Published:** July 20, 2022

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It’s Tom Cruise’s America—we’re all just living in it.

## SUMMARY:

Today we take a ride into the danger zone with Brandon Valeriano and Paul Musgrave and blow Top Gun wide open. Is Tom Cruise’s action 1986 blockbuster a a redemptive reconceptualization of the post-Vietnam American military, or is it just a sports movie? Plus; does the military provide a service or a product? And either way, why are we paying so much for it?