Control and Command

J ames Bovard has become the roving inspector general of the modern state. In "The Fair Trade Fraud" (1991), he showed how politicians and special interests conspire to restrict trade among nations to the benefit of concentrated groups, like farmers and textile companies, and to the detriment of consumers, start-up companies and any of us who can't afford a personal lobbyist. In "Lost Rights" (1994), he scoured the Federal Register, the tax code and other documents that only a bureaucrat could love to reveal that in the domestic arena, too, big government restricts our freedoms for political...