I recently read Hans-Hermann Hoppe's Democracy: The God That Failed and owe to it a blessed simplification in my outlook on life in the good ol' U.S. of A. today. I have taken aboard his radical critique of democracy, now, so to speak, in the mainstream, and at last I feel free to admit something I've kept pretty much to myself for more than 50 years. I have long thought democracy a freak and a fright and a philosophical and political error of the first magnitude, but I kept on trying to talk myself out of it and take on … Continue reading That Old Bugaboo, Democracy