What's the Point of Civil Society When the State Can Do it Worse for More?

I've got a new post up at Cato@Liberty about charity-bashing statists.

I think liberals are mostly right and that conservatives are mostly wrong, and I'm happy to argue my case. But it's… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 6 minutes ago
I'm being abstract here because I don't think the fundamental issue is which faction is which. The issue is profoun… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 13 minutes ago
@jbouie Well, then let's do a podcast on political theory and philosophy. 25 minutes ago
The out-of-power faction will see this as an illegitimate usurpation of power, because it means that has become sub… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 26 minutes ago
But once each of these rival conceptions of legitimacy begins to align relatively neatly with the political advanta… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 31 minutes ago