ANOTHER FLOP FOR LIBERALTARIANISM: Matt Welch on Austan Goolsbee and the White House’s covert war against libertarians. “There is I think zero doubt that the administration began a coordinated PR campaign against the Kochs by early August at the least, and that Goolsbee was just (consciously or unconsciously) doing his part. But wait, didn’t Planet Libertarian have higher hopes for the jauntily named economist (who you can see in a 1999 Reason piece declaiming Internet taxes)? Why yes it did.”