A few months back I finally finished reading Robert Heinlein’s sci-fi opus, Time Enough for Love. It’s a long, sprawling, ambitious book which made me glad my first exposure to Heinlein was the life-changing Starship Troopers, for I fear Time Enough would have put me off Heinlein indefinitely.

Don’t get me wrong, the book is classic Heinlein, full of contradictory character traits and the most un-PC of dialog. Free love and quasi-anarchistic distrust for authority blends seamlessly with a very authoritarian streak which seems antithetical to the rest.

I just finished reading David Harsanyi’s new book, Nanny State. In it, Harsanyi recounts the exploits of various nannies—individuals and organizations who seek to use the power of government to force adults to make the correct choices about what to eat, drink, etc.