Dismissing Milton Friedman And George Will Is Anti-intellectualism

See ‘To Make Men Free,’ by Heather Cox Richardson. This is a NY Times review of the book TO MAKE MEN FREE: A History of the Republican Party, by Heather Cox Richardson.The review was written by Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Excerpt:

"And you would never know, reading her book, that there was a serious intellectual case, or indeed any case, for small-­government conservatism. The idea that an overweening federal government is a threat to both freedom and equality (not to mention prosperity) goes back to Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry and some other fairly respectable personages. You can disagree with them, or with Coolidge or Reagan or Friedrich Hayek or Milton Friedman or George Will, but to dismiss them as nothing more than mouthpieces of the wealthy and big business is to indulge in the sort of anti-intellectualism that Richardson accuses conservatives of harboring."