The Politics of Envy is a fit and proper sequel to the author's
previous book, The Politics of Plunder. But beyond the previous
collection, Doug Bandow herein offers a theoretical rationale for
the current malaise in central government in the United States. He
sees the core problem as the immense increase in government
spending combined with regulatory machinery that extends to every
area of life - from the uses of private property, occupational
choices, to issues of employment, trade, and taxation.Bandow sees
these centrifugal forces as gaining ground over personal virtue and
freedom without much regard to party labels. Indeed, he is at pains
to point out that spending and regulation rose particularly
dramatically during the previous Bush Administration; and shows few
signs of abetting during the current Clinton Administration. But
the work emphasizes not simply federal government initiatives to
curb freedom of choice, but how this extends to sociological and
ideological trends in which extremists pit the values of liberty
and virtue against each other. While the book covers familiar
ground; issues of abortion, environment, collective security and
national defense, international debt, health and welfare, it does
so with a unified theory of a morally centered approach to
political questions of the times. Written with his customary verve,
the book beckons to become a benchmark of libertarian thought - one
that will appeal to people for whom questions of political morality
remain unsettled as well as unsettling.
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