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Most Americans think they live in a free society. They think that because
they can find fifty varieties of salad dressing at the grocery store, choose
from among a hundred types of wine at the liquor store, select a television
channel from over 1,000 choices, download any movie or song they want from the
Internet, and sit at home for hours playing the latest video game that they live
in a free society. They are oblivious to the extent of government encroachment
on their freedoms. They are complacent when it comes to government edicts. And
they are ignorant as to what a free society really means. The truth is,
Americans live in a relatively free society, not an absolutely free
society.
And on top of all that, Americans live in a nanny state. We have a
government full of politicians, bureaucrats, and regulators, and a society full
of statists, authoritarians, and busybodies, who all want to use the force of
government to impose their values, hinder personal freedom, re-make society in
their own image, destroy personal and financial privacy, restrict economic
activity, compel people to associate with people they may not want to associate
with, define and enforce morality, tell you how to live your life, and limit the
size of soft drinks you can purchase at a convenience store.
The 127 essays in this book make the case for a genuinely free society.
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the Table of Contents
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Introduction
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Review by David Gordon
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Review Published in the New American magazine
