Tom Woods does a terrific job of that in this piece, answering a critic who has learned to mouth all the standard complaints against capitalism. Some of those complaints are actually complaints against big-government conservatism.
On Stossel’s program this weekend, one of his guests was David Mamet, the formerly leftist playwright who read several books by writers including Hayek, Sowell, and Friedman, who convince him that all the anti-market cliches he had accepted for decades were wrong. So there’s hope. Some people, at least, can be convinced through reasoned arguments that government interferences with liberty are counter-productive.
