Is Big Government Back?

CMC Professor Charles Kesler wrote an interesting piece for National Review that discusses the unraveling of a historical conservative coalition between neoconservatives, libertarians, and traditionalists. Now that the coalition has broke, he argues that conservatives should dump their "amoral" libertarian allies and attack the state on moral grounds. He says, "Americans are not anarchists, and reject even anarchism's romance. So did the Founders, who stood for moral freedom and thus for limited, republican government. For them... Big Government is bad not so much because it is big and costly but because it is disordered and, in principle, unlimited." Even if you don’t agree with him that libertarians are anarchists, he makes some interesting points.