Letters and Replies, Winter 2009–2010

Craig Biddle and Michael Dahlen respond to letters concerning the choice to live and the economic credit Reagan and Clinton deserve.

To the Editor:

Michael Dahlen’s article “The Rise of American Big Government” [TOS, Fall 2009] is a clarifying survey, in essentials, of the interventionism that has eroded freedom in America for more than a century. But as to the alleged economic successes of Reagan and Clinton, weren’t these funded with deficit financing and inflation? I’d like to hear…