Confronting the Leviathan of the COVID-19 Crisis

It appears we live in a nation of people who have chosen to dismiss, or are blissfully ignorant of, the wealth of historical evidence-expertly documented in Robert Higgs's Crisis and Leviathan-which lays bare the state's tradition of arrogating unwarranted powers during crises and emergencies, powers that never fully recede from its arsenal of economic and political manipulation once the crisis subsides.