Kudos to my friend and ideological soul brotha, John Tamny for articulating not just the value, but the necessity of “freedom” in all public policy decisions. As John states, “Freedom is always the answer.” The cognitive muscle of John’s book derives from his understanding of what so few politicians and so called economists understand, “we don’t really need you, so get out of our way.”

Wealth creation, and only wealth creation, advances civilization. Without it, life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” Wealth is created by capital being left in the hands of free people, exercising their God given right to deploy their property in trillions of voluntary decisions with others that benefit not just the participants of these transactions, but people in far away lands as well. Poverty is the enemy of all societal advancement. In this book, John crushes the imbecilic orthodoxy of Washington thinking in what will surely be known as the biggest political folly of the ages. i.e., the reaction to the Coronavirus.

I have always thought that the muddling manifestation of a “small mind” is best illustrated by those woke, emotional sophists whose minds are unable to grasp the consequences of their surface level feel goodedness. They rush to assuage the “sensation” and what is visible, but cannot grasp the “cogntive” and what they don’t see. What politicians don’t see is that there are 330 million people in the United States making decisions for themselves. Give people liberty, protect their property from arbitrary encroachments, and they will inevitably lift society above and beyond our wildest imaginations.

John does an excellent job of constantly reminding the reader of economic maxims, such as one cannot stimulate the economy by having the government spend money. All growth and all good things spring forth from the private economy and supply side aggregation of capital. No matter how much people want to spend, without capital, there ain’t nothing to spend it on.

Great book. I recommend it, not just for its pandemic analysis, but also as an economic primer that destroys prevailing economic shibboleths among our vacuous political elites.