The theme of my book The Left, The Right, and The State is that both sides of the political aisle represent a grave threat to liberty, though each of a different sort. It is like two people tugging at a turkey’s wishbone. The turkey is liberty and you are the bone. We’ve lived through eight years of the threat from the right. It was all about nationalism, militarism, war, torture, state secrets, attacks on privacy, the use of tax funds to subsidize “conservative values,” the outsourcing of government in a fascistic business-government partnership, the banning of products and services that … Continue reading New Boss, Worse Than the Old Boss?