I came home last night, and saw that my copy of The Politics of Freedom, by David Boaz of the Cato Institute, had arrived. Boaz, naturally, advocates a libertarian approach to the challenges — and opportunities — before America.
Anyone who visits the website of the Cato Institute will see that those writing there are serious men and women, who love America. You may not agree with everything that you see there, and I don’t know anyone who would agree with every position someone else takes, in any event. (Cato also has a blog, too, called Cato@Liberty.)
One thing’s clear, though — many of the ideas from the urbane and thoughtful man and women of Cato are shared by millions, and it betrays an ignorance of our politics to think that libertarians are just a fringe group of “anti-government radicals.”
Boaz is executive vice president at Cato, the largest libertarian think tank in the world. He’s written several books, including Libertarianism: A Primer and he edited the Libertarian Reader.
I ordered a copy from Amazon, but it’s also available on the Cato website. (Even after all these years, it’s still impressive to click on an item at Amazon, and have it show up, quickly, on your doorstep. Just one more thing to like about America, and convenient in a small town.)
I’ll post a review as soon as I’m finished.