Showing posts with label libertarianism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label libertarianism. Show all posts
Friday, August 28, 2026

An Old Slur In A New Incarnation

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     One of my pet peeves is – surprise! – the twisting of the meanings of words for unholy purposes. Yes, it’s a common occurrence in polit...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

Overextensions And Corrective Mechanisms, Part 1

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     Most people are willing to give up their preconceptions...once they’ve had them tattooed on their heads with a blunt instrument. – Keit...
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Public Places, Public Spaces

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     As time passes, I find myself more and more at odds with more and more of the doctrinaire statements issued by libertarians and liberta...
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Thursday, December 15, 2016

Learning The Limits

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     Despite my own libertarian inclinations, I frequently find myself at odds with persons who regard libertarianism as the be-all and end-...
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Saturday, April 2, 2016

Quickies: A First And A Welcome One

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     According to Reason’s Hit & Run blog, Fox Business Network televised an unusual debate yesterday evening: among three contenders f...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Time Was...

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...“libertarian” meant “favoring freedom above other political ends,” and nothing else. ...libertarians were as patriotic as other American...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

The Sickness At The Heart Of Contemporary Conservatism

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With all the lambasting I do of the Left, I sometimes forget to be “fair and balanced.” Mind you, that’s not to imply that the Right is equa...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Problems In The Liberty Movement Part 2: The Absolutists

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"Freedom is a tenable objective for responsible adults only. We do not believe in freedom for children or madmen." -- Milton Fried...
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Outcomes

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Jonah Goldberg, who seems to get better with every column, has produced a gem of insight and breadth of scope. The key to the essay: Of c...
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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Misleading Yourself

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...is an offense for which you'll never find someone else to blame. Consider the following: Libertarianism is spreading on our college...
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Friday, August 23, 2013

An Evolution That Matters

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You can blame Mark Alger for this one, if you like. His brief, pithy observation about the reason there are no free, lightly governed socie...
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Monday, August 5, 2013

Has This Person Read The Constitution?

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If he hasn't, what is he doing in Congress? Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) told a gathering of Democrats, "The bottom line is we’r...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

The Conservative-Libertarian Schism

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[After I’d read this essay by humorist P.J. O’Rourke, it occurred to me that the time was right for a reprint of the following essay, which...
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