![]() Mencken among them, libertarianism all but disappeared after the Second World War. With libertarianism everywhere, it’s hard to remember that as recently as the 1970s, it was nowhere to be found. ![]() O’Rourke, now David Mamet, and to the extent she cares for anything beyond her own naked self-interest-oh, wait, that is libertarianism-Sarah Palin. ![]() Liberty’s current bedfellows include Paul Ryan (his staffers are assigned Atlas Shrugged), Glenn Beck (he flogged The Road to Serfdom onto the best-seller list), Slate’s Jack Shafer, South Park, the founder of Whole Foods, this nudnik, P.J. “Libertarianism” places one-so believes the libertarian-not on the political spectrum but slightly above it, and this accounts for its appeal to both the tricorne fringe and owners of premium real estate. Later that afternoon, in the otherwise quite groovy loft I sometimes crash at in SoHo, where one might once have expected, say, Of Grammatology or at least a back issue of Elle Decor, there sat not one but two copies of something called The Libertarian Reader. ![]() “You know, it’s because I’m a libertarian,” he said, sounding like a vegetarian politely declining offal. Recently, I overheard a fellow Amtraker back off a conversation on politics. ![]()
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