The flippant prose seems to target an adolescent readership. Though sympathetic to Libertarian ideas, I find these arguments for the cause to be intellectually childish, utopian and poorly contrived--exactly the qualities of thought the book purports to criticize.
Taking shots at both left- & right-wing ideas is an honorable tradition, likewise pointing out that nearly every economic choice in politics involves trade-offs. E.G,. If you want the state to protect your freedom some taxes are required. Voluntary contributions won't cut it. Demanding security, equality, public education and infrastructure, a clean environment, workplace regulation, welfare, subsidies for virtuous activities, etc. all come at varying costs to our liberty, some necessary, some intolerable, some frivolous--but all require loss of freedom.
Two exemplary costs to freedom the authors suggest in the opening pages we can do without are border control (children of illegal immigrants often end up in INS custody) and drone assaults on terrorists (collateral deaths of civilians).
Nobody wants to see lost kids in jail, but the alternatives are deportation to Mexican streets or open borders to all arriving with children in tow. Did they consider that open borders would invite several billion impoverished guests to rush in? Or that it might cause Canada to close its borders to the US?
Certainly no one applauds civilian casualties in the War on Terror--at least no one on this side. But short of passively ignoring the Jihadis' compulsion to slaughter, how can we thwart them with fewer collateral deaths? Is it more humane to send out commandos, black hawk helicopters, or B-2 bombers? Propaganda leaflets? Evangelical libertarian missionaries?
If the authors' habit of introducing trite personal anecdotes in the third person every second page were the only irritant, I'd continue reading. But the circuitous arguments for liberty are so clogged with digressions, schoolyard expressions and tangled logic that they rarely end with the unequivocal conclusion they obviously intend. Those I've seen so far seen have already been made concisely with direct clarity by folks like Matt Ridley, Tom Sowell, Milton Friedman and many others.
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