It’s difficult to disentangle Charles’s philosophical opposition to regulations from his financial interest in avoiding them. As he described it, he was trying to “unceasingly advance the cause of liberty” in the face of “arrogant, intrusive, totalitarian laws.” Critics such as Thomas Frank, the author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? who grew up in Kansas watching the Kochs, saw it quite differently. “Libertarianism is supposed to be all about principles, but what it’s really about is political expedience. It’s basically a corporate front, masked as a philosophy.”
