As Wendy McElroy, Fox News’ resident Libertarian pundit aptly summarized in a column for the Independent Institute, American political Libertarianism is based on Murray Rothbard’s synthesis of four schools of thought, the radical anti-statism of the individualist anarchists and wed it with Austrian economics, the foreign policy of the Old Right (isolationism) and the [...]
Ethical Nihilists and Anti-Intellectualism
I have found it very hard, since I go about espousing certain ideas about frugality and living more simply and taking care of oneself, to avoid a group of people who label themselves various things (Libertarians, libertarians, Objectivists, “anarcho-capitalists” etc…) and would like to see me call myself that thing too. Discussion with these sorts [...]
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