"By many objective signs and indicators the world is becoming a far more materially comfortable place.
Over the last thirty years, tens of millions of people have been raised out of poverty in various parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
At the same time, new technologies have been transforming communications and conveniences of everyday life.
Yet, present political trends in America and other places in the world seem to be suggesting a far different story....But among many intellectuals and paternalistic ideologues every such improvement in the human condition is matched with condemnations and attempts to smother personal and economic liberty.
...The progressives want to use the government to impose a straightjacket of “politically correct” words, actions and attitudes.
...In the meantime, the U.S. government continues its path along worsening fiscal irresponsibility as both Democrats and Republicans in Congress “compromise” with each other to gain deficit-busting increases in both domestic and military spending
All of these trends, I would suggest, are instances of the fact that as we approach the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century, the world is, again, in the grip of a wave of anti-individualism and anti-capitalism.
In fact, it is merely a continuation of the same counter-revolutionary trend that has been at work for well over a century to reverse the achievements of nineteenth century classical liberalism.
It is the same old collectivist wine poured into new political and cultural bottles..."
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