Table of Contents

I: The Transcendent Questions; 1: Virtue versus Freedom? Allies or Antagonists?; 2: God and the Economy: Is Capitalism Moral?; 3: Should Christians Be Statists?; 4: Libertarians and Christians in a Hostile World; II: Abortion The Irreconcilable Conflict; 5: The Real Meaning of Choice; 6: From Pro-Choice to Pro-Coercion; 7: The Escalating Abortion Wars; III: Earth Keeping or Earth Worship?; 8: Ecology as Religion: Faith in Place of Fact; 9: Environmentalism: The Triumph of Politics; IV: Republic or Empire: The New Wilsonism; 10: Keep the Troops and the Money at Home; 11: The Pitfalls of Collective Security; V: International Debt or Development?; 12: The Misdeeds of International Aid; 13: World Bank: Servant of Governments, Not Peoples; VI: The Regulatory State; 14: America’s Regulatory Dirty Dozen; 15: Whither Health Care in the Age of Clinton?; 16: The Pharmaceutical Industry: Problem or Solution?; 17: National Service: Utopias Revisited; 18: Real Welfare Reform: An Idea Whose Time Has Come; 19: War on Drugs or America?; VII: Redistribution without End; 20: Still Paying for Government; 21: The Decade of Envy; 22: Not Theirs to Give; 23: Tax Fairness, Clinton-Style; 24: The New Democrats: Spend and Tax, Rather than Tax and Spend; 25: A Coast-to-Coast Federal Dole; 26: The Time of the Political Locusts; 27: The NEA: They Still Don’t Get It

About the Author

Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. and a nationally syndicated columnist with Copley News Service. He is the author of The Politics of Plunder, and has written special features for The New Republic; Harper's; The New York Times; and The Washington Post. James C. Miller, chair of Citizen's for a Sound Economy, sums it up best; -Bandow is original and provocative. He really makes you think about the challenges of our time.-