Why am I going on about Heinlein? a reader asks. Was he conservative?

Are you kidding? It is in Glory Road, if memory serves, that someone says something like: “Taxation is theft, and the federal income tax is grand larceny,” with the author’s obvious approval (I don’t have a copy, and would be obliged if someone who does would look it up. It’s near the end, when the hero has tried to resume normal life. Or possibly in a different Heinlein novel altogether.)

Libertarianism, the warrior virtues, and enticing women–that’s Heinlein. What’s not to like? The man was a saint.