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Coronavirus must not rob us of our liberties forever

10 April 2020

3:24 AM

10 April 2020

3:24 AM

The American economist and historian Robert Higgs noted long ago that during the 20th century the various wars, and the various declared equivalents of war, such as against drugs and viruses, regularly led to permanent expansions of state power. Power is the ability to coerce physically, war being the pre-eminent coercion.

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