Woodrow Wilson’s Libertarian Lackeys

Last week (I meant to post a link to it last Thursday before my surgery Friday, but didn’t get around to it), Reason had an article on Woodrow Wilson’s libertarian lackeys, people who theoretically favored freedom, but were involved in enforcing censorship and suppression of dissent, either because they honestly thought they were preventing worse, or because they were seduced by the thrill of being in positions of power, and close to the President. On the other hand, Louis F. Post behaved honorably, doing his best to damp down the Red Scare, and prevent the deportation of people against whom there was no evidence of wrongdoing.

Some of these libertarian lackeys were Georgists, and the author, Jesse Walker, gives a fair introduction to Georgism in the early twentieth century, and how Georgists differed from some other Progressives.