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today is his skepticism of government
involvement in medicine. He believes this
will only lead to greater social control:
All these healthcare enterprises, with
poorly paid doctors on salaries, where
treatments are supervised by bureaucracies, should be regarded with suspicion;
overnight they can undergo alarming
transformations.

Here again people succumb to government
control because of fear. One of the greatest
fears for modern man is to be without health

insurance. Jünger was an ardent believer
in the importance of developing personal
health care, as good health was another facet
of freedom and a means to thwart government control.
Despite his eccentric and aristocratic
views, Ernst Jünger remains one of the most
important modern thinkers on the political
Right. And if more people read and understand him, it will become clear he is no
fascist, and never was. But he was certainly
a great visionary and may well be one of the
great conservative writers of the twentieth
century.

how're ya gonna keep 'em
down on the farm?
Paul H. Lewis
Politics on a Human Scale: The American Tradition of Decentralism
by Jeff Taylor (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013)

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recent Gallup poll found that 72 percent of Americans now fear the federal
government as the greatest threat to our
democratic freedoms. In light of the revelations about NSA monitoring of our phone
calls and e-mails, and of the IRS's targeting
of groups opposed to President Obama's reelection, and what we now know-despite
much official lying-about the deeply
intrusive nature of Obamacare, would you
include yourself in that majority? If so, then
maybe Jeff Taylor's Politics on a Human Scale
is just the sort of book you'll want to read.
Paul H. Lewis is a retired professor of political
science from Tulane University. He now lives in
Raleigh, North Carolina.

Or maybe not. Professor Taylor perceives
American history as a Manichean struggle
between two traditions, the Jeffersonian and
the Hamiltonian. In his lengthy, minutely
researched, and heavily end-noted study,
the Jeffersonians are the heroes. He shares
their ideal of a highly decentralized agrarian republic in which yeoman farmers settle
political questions face to face in small, local
communities and reserve the right to nullify
decisions made by higher-level authorities.
His villains are the Hamiltonian bankers and
businessmen of the urban East Coast with
their allegedly "sophisticated" irreligious
attitudes and their desire for a strong central government to facilitate the growth of
a commercial economy that would not only
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