In response to my article “The Worst Mistake in U.S. History,” a reader wrote to tell me that, in his opinion, there have been worse mistakes in U.S. history than the conversion of the federal government to what is called a “a national security state.” He cited as examples the adoption of the federal income tax, the Federal Reserve System, and public (i.e., government) schooling.

That reader is certainly correct that those were big mistakes insofar as the freedom … Continue reading The Omnipotent Power to Kill Us