When Libertarians get lost. I very much admired Reasonette Stephanie Slade’s recent take on the “postmodern right”, J.D. Vance and the Politics of Victimhood, which, like the postmodern left, believes that “power” should be pursued and exercised without regard to any supposed “rules” or “laws” of morality or justice, which are merely hypocritical constructs that…
Tag: Libertarianism
Yo, “conservatives”! Haven’t you heard? You’re totally f*cked!
Yes, it’s schadenfreude time around the Literature ‘R Us corral once more, and, yes, it is morally lazy in the extreme to snicker at the other side’s weaknesses without considering one’s own, but life is short, after all, and we’ll soon be in the clay, so before we submit to the clammy embrace of viscous…
Does the libertarian movement need a kick in the pants? Or is it just Nick Gillespie?
Sorry, Nick, but if you give Literature R Us an opening for a cheap shot, we’re going to take it. Nick incautiously let his guard down last month with a post in Reason, “The Libertarian Movement Needs a Kick in the Pants”, in itself a riposte, as it were, to Tyler Cowen’s thought-, if not…