Suing the Libelous NY Times

The New York Times in its January 25, 2014, article entitled “Rand Paul’s Mixed Inheritance” maintained that I, long term libertarian that I am, regarded actual slavery, as practiced in the U.S. until 1865, as “not so bad.” How, pray tell, did this come about?

I did a series of interviews with Sam Tanenhaus a journalist of this “newspaper of record,” who was asking me what libertarianism was all about (his goal, I later learned, silly me, was to besmirch this philosophy, and me, so that he co...