Tom, someone at some point decided to dub Cathy Young a libertarian, and the moniker is a main source of credibility. Yet it is obvious from her “review” of your book that she knows zip about the history of ideas or the war and or that every libertarian from Acton to Spooner to Mencken to Chodorov to Morley to Rothbard to (James) Buchanan opposed the military conquest of the South; indeed, the whole of the liberal tradition has affirmed the right to secede (whether slaves from their ‘owners’ or smaller governmental units from larger ones). It is instructive to recall … Continue reading What Does Cathy Young Really Think?