Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter and policy adviser to President George W. Bush, is the latest in a long line of political writers who fail to see the distinction between a virtue and an enforceable legal obligation. Missing that difference leads to all sorts of mischief and undermines a writer's insistence that he favors liberty. Some people may find it an unpleasant choice, but choose they must: freedom or compulsion? There is no third way.The rest of my TGIF column, "Virtue versus Legal Obligation," is at the Foundation for Economic Education website.
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Virtue versus Legal Obligation
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