4. Intergenerational Conflict Will Get Worse
The excellent British online magazine Spiked recently published “Caring for the elderly in an ageist society,” by Dave Clements, warning about deteriorating attitudes toward elderly people in the UK. As the article points out, there is more to the problem than logistical and financial concerns about providing socialist medical care to an aging population. Nor do increasing lifespans in the West, with attendant increases in loneliness and age-related morbidity, account for this unhappy state of affairs.
Foreword by Paul Gottfried
In my more than fifty years in academia and as a writer, I have found there are few people who see things as I do. Jeff Deist may be one of them. Along with many of his colleagues at the Mises Institute, Jeff carries on the traditions of the Old Right: opposed to leviathan state, antiwar and thus deeply suspicious of foreign interventionism, and traditional in cultural outlook.
Introduction by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Jeff Deist’s A Strange Liberty: Politics Drops Its Pretenses is a collection of more than forty essays that apply Austrian economics and libertarian theory, especially the writings of Murray Rothbard, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Ron Paul, to many of the big issues of the day: failure of democracy; the attacks on civil society; fake pandemics and the never-ending national emergency state; immigration; strategies for freedom.
Politics
1. Politics Drops Its Pretenses
Can the increasing politicization of life in America be stopped, or even slowed?
2. What We Lost on September 11
The cliché is true: September 11, 2001, represents a defining American moment. Generation X and Millennials suddenly had their own day of infamy, just as their parents and grandparents had Pearl Harbor and the Kennedy assassination. 9/11 marked the end of a relatively untroubled time in the US following the 1980 and 90s, and the beginning of a dark turn that continues to this day. Optimism, an enduring feature of the American psyche (rightly or wrongly identified as buncombe by Mencken) suddenly was in short supply.
A Strange Liberty: Politics Drops Its Pretenses
Contents
FOREWORD by Paul Gottfried
INTRODUCTION by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
POLITICS
1. Politics Drops Its Pretenses
2. What We Lost On September 11
3. PC Is About Control, Not Etiquette
4. Intergenerational Conflict Will Get Worse
5. The Wrong Elites
6. We Don’t Believe You
7. The Privilege of Politics
SECESSION AND DECENTRALIZATION
8. Self-determination, Not Universalism, Is the Goal
9. Democracy, the God That’s Failing
Last week, two federal government entities produced financial reports. The Treasury Department issued the latest annual (FY2022) Financial Report of the United States Government (FRUSG), and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors issued its weekly H.4.1 report on the financial condition of the Federal Reserve Banks. These reports deserve closer scrutiny by citizens and taxpayers.
