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Category: Liberalism
An excellent column from Bruce Bartlett. Some highlights: But even these metro-libertarians tend to be…
Robin Hanson replies to my post below on cultural externalities and harm: When I ask…
Robin Hanson’s ongoing discussion of positional goods, signaling, and consumption externalities at the new, exclusively…
Stimulating thoughts from Razib (aka “David Hume”): But a dispositional conservatism serves more than a…
Steven W. Thrasher in the NY Times a couple days ago: In 1958, when my mother,…
If I read him right, Robert Stacy McCain’s argument for state-enforced marriage inequality (“a hill…
Jonah Golberg argued last week that there is something “unlibertarian” in pointing out, as I…
That’s what I’m going to call the error I sense lurking beneath a lot of…
Clive Crook’s gloss is right-on: Take this budget at face value, and when Mr Obama…