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And these people – especially in Twitter debates – pretend that they have the moral high

Libertarians aren’t the only people who enjoy playing devil’s advocate. All this is to say: most people grow out of their devil’s advocate phase before they’re old enough to v

...des = 'What “libertarian” tends to mean to most people, including most people who self-identify as libertarian, is flatly at odds with some of what I bel ...tions. What “libertarian” tends to mean to most people, including most people who self-identify as libertarian, is flatly at odds with some of what I bel

...tes in the fevered swamps that the elder Paul dwelled in for decades. Most people who back Trump don’t do so for racist reasons, but it’s incredible how ...ernment, Rothbard argued that libertarians needed to align themselves with people they might not like much in order to expand their numbers. “Outreach to t

What can we learn about a person based on the people he associated with? Despite a relatively poor formal education and without

...hrough some market. Musk’s vision there was standard sharing economy — people would own their cars and they would rent them out. It wouldn’t be an empl

...In 2003, for instance, when the World Health Organization recommended that people reduce the amount of sugar they consume, American sugar companies threatene ...da Crystals had grown to 187,000 acres of sugar cane, employed about 2,000 people in Palm Beach County alone, and was expected to produce 660,000 tons of sug

So from a libertarian perspective paying UK taxes is entirely voluntary - people have chosen not to pay them, and that is working out fine. They have chosen ...oice, and you can quite anytime you want. There is a long queue outside of people eager to take your job. You think that the UK "housing association" is not

...will sit out this election. But there will also be a substantial number of people interested in registering a protest vote for an alternative to the two main ...r hand, think workers deserve all that they earn and more--because working people, not capitalist owners, are the ones who produce all wealth.

...ions of freedom. In truth, they're tireless defenders of the idea that the people with the most wealth and power in our society deserve to keep it. This, of

... For surely our standard assumptions about individual behavior (basically: people do the best they can under the circumstances they find themselves in) must

...t programs cut the poverty rate nearly in half in 2015, lifting 38 million people — including 8 million children — above the poverty line, our analysis o ...t programs cut the poverty rate nearly in half in 2015, lifting 38 million people — including 8 million children — above the poverty line, our analysis o

... citizens. Instead, the tweet suggests that he wants to restrict voting to people who know enough to realize that Jason Brennan’s own political views are t Two things are going on here. First – the claim that some people are simply far better at thinking clearly than others – in Brennan’s ve

...ot even the article’s author seems cognizant of the extent to which many people who consider themselves part of the liberty/free-market movement are presen ...purport to provide evidence that differences in behavior between different people is mostly explained by genetics, particularly differences in genetics relat

... a social whole has novel properties that emerge from interactions between people, its reduction to a mere aggregate of many rational decision-makers or many

...st — or as they might exist, with some tweaking — to the bulk of those people affected by them. Much depends, then, on whom libertarians consider to be these “reasonable people.”

If the recession were so bad that millions of people started selling themselves into slavery, or entering contracts that require ...rity and bilateral, individual contracts. “Protection and enforcement of people’s rights is treated as an economic good to be provided by the market,”

...ds’ camaraderie and sense of humor give Dude Wipes its competitive edge. People seem to agree. In 2013, Dude Wipes won the Nonwovens Industry Visionary Awa “It’s become clear that the manufacturers are not the people that should be telling us what is acceptable and not acceptable in our sewe

...on, while life remains cheap in China, a far poorer land of over a billion people, ruled by a ruthless Communist Party eager to bury its mistakes. But an exa

... Malays National Organization which ruled Malaysia saw the Singapore based People's Action Party (PAP) as a threat in the 1964 elections. There were also rac ...rime Minister of the new country and retained power until 1990. He and his People's Action Party forged a new country.