Review: Libertarian food for thought
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2013
America is going to the dogs. Specifically, it is threatened by statism. Separation of powers and constitutionalism have been quashed, as in Hitler's Enabling Act; now, the president is judge, jury and executioner. The hero Cliffson has seen his friends beaten and dragged away, crushing his spirit and shattering the facile facade of the American dream. "Government can't protect us but they still want to take away our guns," muses Cliffson.Spurious Keynesian remedies have burned out the country's productive capacity and sowed seeds of parasitism--vindicating the Austrian theorists, but all too late. Unemployed college graduates riot in the capital. Meanwhile, China's laissez-faire, geoeconomic might has quietly transformed her into ruler of the globe.In the ensuing chaos, only true men--the noncomformists--can uphold liberty. Roberts's story is a poignant and enlightened satire of a decadent and sickly America, ignorant of the virtues that once made her great.