24/04/2008 10:18:23 pm
Atlanta. People are in good mood here at the Resource Bank in Atlanta. Apparently, 700 people from 53 countries are here. The lunch speaker was Jonah Goldberg, author of "Liberal Fascism", where he reveals the strong ties between the American left and fascism.

I spoke after lunch, next to Grover Norquist - formally head of Americans for Tax Reform but to a large extent the main conservative strategist. Recently, he published his new book "Leave Us Alone". He pointed out that the left is intetested in increasing government so they can be the ones to run everyone′s lives and called them "competing parasites".

I was the optimistic voice claiming that free-market reforms that decrease government have been possible in many countries. Then, we signed books - Grover a few more than I...