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.

Can the increasing politicization of life in America be stopped, or even slowed?

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.

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