Libertarianism Challenges the 2008 Election

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Byline: William H. Peterson, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The 2008 election plot thickens, the economy wobbles, raising a query: What is libertarianism and how does it sway election and economic thinking? Welcome this book then on and for libertarianism. Libertarianism. What a word, what a mindset.

Mindsetter Boaz has been a big player in the libertarian movement for some 30 years. He is executive vice president of the Cato Institute, author of "Libertarianism: A Primer," translated into nine languages, and editor of "The Libertarian Reader: Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao-Tzu to Milton Friedman." He has also penned hundreds of essays, op-eds, and other short pieces.

Here, for the first time, many of those pieces …