Sappy headline, yes, but I was delighted to receive the following from Neil, a guy I got to know while spending a few days on a project at EWTN. He tells me that months after we met, he
“came across a strong recommendation from you in a Traditional Catholic Books catalogue to read “NeoConned”. So I did. Yikes. I had no idea how influenced by neo-cons I was. I cut my teeth on W.F. Buckley and company. I supported Bush, the Iraq War, the Patriot Act — I was unaware of what a militarized child of the empire I had become….“Then I started spending time at the von Mises website which you told me about. Started downloading lectures and audiobooks (please, if you have any influence, more audiobooks at the website!). Right now I’m listening to Rothbard’s For a New Liberty — wow! Then I read the Politically Incorrect Guide to American History — another wow! Then I started listening to some of your (and others’) interviews on the Lew Rockwell and Antiwar podcasts. Then I read The Revolution by you know who. And so what do you suppose has happened?
1. I have been delivered from the spirit of neoconservatism and like the Gadarene demoniac am now clothed and in my right mind.
2. I am opposed to the Iraq War and all the other stuff that’s brewing.
3. Indeed, I am antiwar.
4. I now see the Bush presidency as a disaster.
5. The Patriot Act as an obscenity.
6. The constitution as shredded.
7. The bailout as a disgrace.
8. I’ve transferred my citizenship from the empire to the republic.
9. And I am being strongly tempted (very strongly) to become a libertarian.
I blame you for most of this! What next — the Latin Mass? uh-oh.”
11:21 pm on October 18, 2008
