by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 5, 1999

Browsing through Reason magazine recently, I stumbled on an article by a free-trade True Believer, who was profoundly perplexed over the inroads being made by economic nationalists.

“In a time of unrivaled prosperity,” wailed Brink Lindsey, “what has made trade liberalization so bitterly controversial?” At which point, the author announced that he had discovered why it is that “free traders … (had) wound up in the present mess.”