“That government is best which governs not at all,”
Said Henry David Thoreau,
But what did he know?
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“Liberty:  not the daughter but the mother of order,”
Declared Pierre-Joseph Proudhon,
And then he passed on.
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“When the government is too intrusive, people lose their spirit,”
Noted Lao-tzu,
As I would, too.
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“Great men are almost always bad men,”
Declared Lord Acton
―some wisdom to act on.
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“Let [...]

I’ve subscribed to Newsweek for more than 30 years.  I started subscribing in the 1970s, partly because I wanted a magazine that summarized the week’s news (plenty of choices there) and partly because Newsweek ran a monthly column by Milton Friedman.
When I started subscribing I didn’t notice what some might call a liberal bias in [...]