Libertarianism and the Fairness Message
This Jonathan Haidt vignette on why it’s hard to gross out a libertarian also serves as a wonderful guide to why hard libertarianism will always fail at the ballot box. It’s fiercely[...]
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The Hunger Games, Climate Change and Libertarianism
Over at Slate, Torie Bosch writes that that an underlying subtext of the Hunger Games franchise is a dystopian future induced by climate change and resource conflict. Bosch writes: For[...]
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‘A Merry Band of Libertarian Litigators’
That’s what columnist George F. Will calls Heartland’s friends at the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Its mission: Simply put,[...]
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Ron Swanson Explains Locke, Economics, and Being a Libertarian — to a 4th Grader
Previously on this blog, I sang the praises of the NBC sitcom Parks & Recreation. Why did I do this? To highlight the fact that one of the show’s best features[...]
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The Trouble with The New Yorker: A Debate About Libertarians
Heartland Institute friend Darren Nelson (an Aussie living in Wisconsin) shares with us an interesting post from the libertarian Mises Institute about a now-infamous December piece in New York magazine[...]
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‘New York’ Magazine Critique of Libertarianism Has Positive, Unintended Consequences
A recent New York magazine article has raised a bit of a ruckus on the right. In his long article on libertarianism, Christopher Beam appears both fascinated and puzzled by[...]
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