Sheldon Richman on the State of Liberty in America During World War I

There’s always plenty for libertarians to
complain about in our troubled world, but in many respects, things
could be much worse, particulalry compared to how the U.S.
government punished dissent before, during, and even after
America’s participation in World War I. Then, writes Sheldon
Richman, the propaganda campaign was remarkable, and the repression
more so, as though the Woodrow Wilson and his administration
 feared that a little dissent could turn a country whose
population’s nativist urges gave them a generally prowar mentality
antiwar.

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