A Necessary Distortion
Gary Wills’s new book condemns distrust of government, and then fails in an attempt to cloak statist bias in historical garb.
Gary Wills’s new book condemns distrust of government, and then fails in an attempt to cloak statist bias in historical garb.
If pundits really want to pay tribute to the central state, they should look beyond the New Deal and consider the watershed years of the Progressive Era.
That Nasa is a boondoggle and a socio-economic drain should be obvious to all. How does this bureaucracy continue to get away with it?
So regulated, cartelized, and inefficient, the industry nearly qualifies as socialist by Misesian standards.
The last turn-of-the-century gave birth to Progressivism which was really statism in disguise. But after a century of the state, freedom still stands a chance.