The Libertarian Temptation
Skepticism about government has its place in our politics, but it needs to be tempered and balanced by the opposite impulse
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It’s pretty amazing, when you think about it, that I’ve been writing intensively about the right for over a year now and have yet to devote a post to the place of libertarianism within it. There are actually two reasons for my reticence. One is the changing fortunes of libertarianism in the Republican Party over the past few years. The other is the depth of my own ambivalence about libertarianism and its enormous influence on American politics.
Libertarianism: In Decline—and More Influential Than Ever?
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