Thought for the Day

I found this in a post on Brad DeLong's web site. It is an interesting thought to ponder:

Edmund S. Morgan's American Slavery, American Freedom is all about the paradox that the most aggressive and strident political advocates of the small-government personal-liberty tradition in America were the highly-racist plantation slaveowners of the Virginia Dynasty. There is something about holding hundreds of your fellow humans in inhuman bondage that makes you very averse to even a moderately-strong and powerful central government--especially one that you and your class do not control.

I'm always looking for yet more reasons to sneer at libertarianism and I'll count this as one more.