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A Strange Liberty: Politics Drops Its Pretenses

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A Strange Liberty: Politics Drops Its Pretenses

by Deist, Jeff
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A Strange Liberty calls for the relentless pursuit of decentralization in whatever manner this course is still open to decent, freedom-loving citizens.
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A Strange Liberty calls for the relentless pursuit of decentralization in whatever manner this course is still open to decent, freedom-loving citizens. Quoting from, among others, the late Angelo Codevilla, a bold scholar of government and an unabashed critic of our democratic decadence, Deist proposes that states that oppose federal overreach and woke indoctrination react against these evils through noncompliance. He shows again and again that the federal government’s behavior has been blatantly unconstitutional for a very long time. As the book chronicles, the Department of Justice, the IRS, and other federal agencies have all been repeatedly unleashed on those whom the one-party state wishes to target. In light of this situation, state governments should not be obliged to serve slavishly a federal administration that is making war on some of its citizens. Up until Joe Biden’s election, it was in fact the Left, with media incitement, which was calling for resistance to the federal government, on behalf of marijuana use, sanctuary for illegals, and gay marriage before that. Why shouldn’t the Right or the non-Left have the same right to disobey federal directives which are coming from a regime that is openly hostile? Jeff here has given outraged citizens a voice and extolls them to pursue this practice of resistance through state or local governments where they can. Although he knows it’s not clear this strategy will be sufficient to work against federal overreach, he encourages us to get out of our chairs and be proactive in finding ways to push back.


In A Strange Liberty, there is more of the mood and wit of H.L. Mencken’s American Mercury than the spirit of National Review. This anthology does not just duplicate the positions of a previous generation. It is a creative return to truths that were never lost and should be given an active voice again.

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Contents FOREWORD by Th omas J. DiLorenzo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 FOREWORD by Paul Gottfried . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 INTRODUCTION by Th omas J. DiLorenzo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 POLITICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 1. Politics Drops Its Pretenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2. What We Lost On September 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3. PC Is About Control, Not Etiquette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 4. Intergenerational Confl ict Will Get Worse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 5. Th e Wrong Elites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 6. We Don’t Believe You. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 7. Th e Privilege of Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 SECESSION AND DECENTRALIZATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 8. Self-determination, Not Universalism, Is the Goal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 9. Democracy, the God Th at’s Failing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 10. Th e Subsidiarity Principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 11. All Crises Are Local . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 12. What Will it Take for Americans to Consider Breaking Up? . . . . . . 71 CIVIL SOCIETY AND CULTURE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 13. Th e Language Vandals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 14. Notre Dame and What Was Lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 15. Getting Liberalism Wrong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 PANDEMIC GOVERNMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 16. Th e Absurdity of Covid “Cases” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 17. Unmask America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 18. Babbitt Is Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 19. YouTube Attempts to Silence the Mises Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 7 8 A Strange Liberty IMMIGRATION AND BORDERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 20. Market Borders, Not Open Borders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 21. An Immigration Roundtable with Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Walter Block, and Hans-Hermann Hoppe . . . . . . . . . . . 113 22. A Libertarian Approach to Disputed Land Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 ECONOMICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 23. In Th rall to the Federal Reserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 24. How to Th ink about the Fed Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 25. MMT: Not Modern, Not Monetary, Not A Th eory. . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 26. Negative Interest Rates Are the Price We Pay for De-Civilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 27. Th e Terrible Economic Ignorance behind Covid Tradeoff s . . . . . . . 188 28. Infl ation: State-Sponsored Terrorism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 STRATEGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 29. Welcome to Post-Persuasion America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 30. Th e Sober Political Reality for Libertarians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 31. Against the Zeitgeist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 32. What Should Politically Vanquished People Do? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 33. Th e Case For Optimism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 34. Th e New Rules of Engagement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 SPEECHES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 35. Th e Imposers and the Imposed Upon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 36. Austrian Economics Looks East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 37. Th e Biggest Myth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 38. Th e Realistic Market for Private Governance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 39. Four Ways to Build a Better Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 40. Our National Psychosis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 41. We Need Truth and Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 42. Th e End of Monetary Hedonism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 TRIBUTES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 43. Th e Man the World Still Needs: Murray Rothbard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 44. What Would Mises Th ink about the West Today?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 45. A Word of Th anks, Lew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 46. Ron Paul Remains Unstoppable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
ISBN 9781610167642
eISBN 9781610167659
Publisher Ludwig von Mises Institute
Publication Date 3/1/2023
Binding PB
Page Length 342
Dimensions 6x9

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