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When “libertarians” stray away from economics they get really crazy
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I recently heard Levin on the radio and he said something about Ron Paul being an “Articles of Confederation guy.”
I know that Levin fancies himself as a historian, but any historian who said something like that would be out of the historian business very, very quickly.
Anyone who has studied the complaints about the Articles and the subsequent Constitutional Convention knows that one of Madison’s complaints about the current system (under the Articles) was that each state had its own currency, and there was no way for the national government to handle interstate transactions. For example, Rhode Island was printing money out of thin air and was attempting to pay its debts with it to out-of-state creditors.
If anyone knows anything at all about Dr. Paul, it is that he is a sound money guy who would be against the system in place prior to the Constitution I just described.
For more info on Madison and the Constitution debates, see the new biography on Madison by Dr. Kevin R.C. Gutzman (a real historian), whose other books include “The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution” and “Who Killed the Constitition? The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to Barack Obama” (Dr. Tom Woods is a co-author on that one). Dr. Gutzman has also written for National Review and Human Events and other publications.
In other words, I think its possible for Levin to be wrong.
Most of the time, when I hear him talk, I like to imagine Paul Giamatti as “Pig Vomit” in the Howard Stern movie. Maybe its just the sound of his voice or the way he talks. I don’t know. As a result, I’ve never really taken him seriously anyway.