I was published at The Dollar Vigilante with an article on the disappearing moral underpinning of America, using my experience at US airports, immigration, and TSA as a window into the country’s growing acceptance of bureaucratic arrogance and state power.

In the article, I discuss how Americans have come to tolerate indignities that would once have been unthinkable. The problem is not merely inefficient airport security or rude officials. It is the deeper moral surrender that allows people to accept arbitrary authority, submit to humiliation, and rationalize the growth of the state. America remains home to some of the best and most generous people I have known, but its political and bureaucratic culture has been moving in a deeply troubling direction.

Read the archived article at The Dollar Vigilante via the Wayback Machine →