In an excellent column, the Bionic Mosquito warns of the danger of using the State to make people moral.  As Murray Rothbard pointed out, the Progressive intellectuals who supported World War I, with all its disastrous consequences, were “post-millennial pietists” who thought they could bring about the Kingdom of God on earth. Bionic concludes: “These postmillennial pietist Protestants thought that they could control the one ring that would rule them all.  We saw that even Frodo was not immune to the power of the ring, succumbing at the last moment, at the edge of the abyss .Such a ring should be … Continue reading Postmillennial Progressives