Mr. Thiel has long stood out in Silicon Valley for his vocal
libertarianism, but he drew heavy criticism from many tech - industry peers — including fellow Facebook board member Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix Inc. — when he backed Mr. Trump's presidential campaign and later served as an adviser on his White House transition team.
He's not just in the oft - ridiculed Peter Thiel camp of
libertarianism that advocates young people forego college in order to seek life experiences.
Rand Paul tried his hardest to place Paul - style
libertarianism into the context of the Tea Party.
«I don't entirely agree with the foundation of
Libertarianism, which is very anti-government, «Koenig says.
The assumptions of cutthroat
libertarianism were so embedded in the worldview of these lucky newcomers that they spoke as though the victims of tech - fueled displacement and gentrification had chosen to live in poverty and squalor, just as they themselves chose to learn to code, chose a management - track job at a major corporation, and chose to set themselves up for a comfortable upper - middle - class suburban life.
Oliver is the author of The New
Libertarianism: Anarcho - Capitalism.
In one sense this is ironic: Part of the bitcoin ethos is
its libertarianism, and some of that raffish libertarian charm will be lost if bitcoin transactions are regulated much more strictly than dollar transactions.
But in another sense it's a perfect fit, because another part of the bitcoin ethos — and one closely linked to
its libertarianism — is a fondness for hard money.
In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho -
libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.
«They could co-exist,» said Miron, an expert in the economics of
libertarianism.
They have lost the capacity to develop a middle - class narrative against the Democrats» cultural
libertarianism as part of an agenda of pro-family public policy.
Their libertarianism, I'm thinking, is too extreme or Randian.
I can even say that
libertarianism should be chastened a bit by the semi-true discoveries of evolutionary biology, although the progressives misunderstood what those discoveries really are.
I'm sticking with my analysis — which is basically Obama combined conservatism in the precise sense when it came to defense of entitlements with progressive
libertarianism on the so - called social issues.
The ritualizationings of much bettered looneyliancies in the reprobations of
libertarianisms will ever stir the cauldrens of wittiness regards.
But one result of our creeping and somewhat creepy
libertarianism is that the infrastructure that makes such caregiving — done mainly, let's tell the truth, by women — possible is imploding too.
More worrisome for me are the emphatic individualism, subjectivism, and unconcern about community that are «vulgarly» associated with
libertarianism, not to mention the isolationism (and worse).
But our civilizing institutions also have to be defended against the creeping and creepy
libertarianism of our time.
The old alliance between sensible
LIBERTARIANISM and SOCIAL CONSERVATISM can't hold in the face of the vanishing middle class, the birth dearth combined with increasing longevity, the depoliticizing challenges of the 21st competitive marketplace, the irresponsibility of our techno - meritocracy, our inability to keep Locke in the Locke box on issues having to do with families and our erotic lives, and the connection between increasing individualism and growing dependency on the state summed up in the phrase «single mom.»
A good many of the new faces in Washington will have been supported by the Tea Party movement, and a good number of these are committed to the worldview and political philosophy of
libertarianism.
As John Milbank and Adrian Pabst put it in their new book The Politics of Virtue, contemporary political culture is the product of a convergence of two strains of liberalism: a leftist cultural
libertarianism that took off during the 1960s and 1970s, and a rightwing free - market liberalism that reached its apogee with the Reagan - Thatcher alliance.
So to truly apply the mindset of Madison today means to admit what he couldn't quite see: that just as air is to the regrettable existence of fire, and as liberty is to the regrettable existence of faction, so is modern republican government to the regrettable existence of various at - bottom - suicidal democratic mindsets: progressivism, democratic socialism, militant secularism, and
libertarianism.
If those guys are largely right about the incentive factors that would then come into play (and especially if Americans were moderating their economic
libertarianism with devotion to family, virtue, community, and God, as your work would urge them to), then by no means would that cause the social welfare policy disaster most liberals assume it would.
Throughout that time, we have carried on an intellectual conversation about Burkean conservatism,
libertarianism, and public policy.
Postmodern conservatives observe that the main threat to liberal or genuinely higher education these days comes not from political correctness but from «disruptive»
libertarianism.
Lifestyle
libertarianism has promised freedoms without constraints, pleasures without penalties.
Libertarianism is clearly more marketable to conservatives, even social conservatives, than it is to liberals.
That Lindsey is not able to find common cause with best successes of
libertarianism in the national arena suggests that Cato is probably wise to want to distance its brand from Lindsey's liberaltarianism, if that is in fact what it is doing.
Abortion, however, reveals, maybe better than any other issue, the brazen disingenuousness of such small - government posturing, and the convenient faux
libertarianism often espoused by leftist proponents of greater centralized bureaucracy.
Kruse describes their agenda as «Christan
libertarianism.»
The result, as Pierre Manent and others have observed, is a paradoxical coincidence of absolutism and
libertarianism, indeed an absolutism that grows in proportion to the increase in liberty.
«Conservatism,» unlike liberalism and
libertarianism, maintains that the state may, and indeed must in some respects, aim at shaping the moral character of its citizens.
If «liberal» periods in our history are the security - based exceptions to the rule of a skeptical
libertarianism, the exception is perhaps the rule if security concerns are a constant in American life.
So if, as Brands argues,
libertarianism is genuinely American and moralistic communitarianism is not, this may be evidence not of the strange death but of the everlasting life of American liberalism.
This sort of moralistic, communitarian conservatism, an important and growing force in American politics, is often at odds with
the libertarianism that Brands calls conservative.
It will be because Flake's
libertarianism is extremely unpopular.
But if I had done it, I would have concluded with a tirade against Ron and Rand Paul
libertarianism.
(Is
my libertarianism obvious?)
Still, the more that Paul identifies with noble or classy traditionalism, the more he can distinguish himself from slacker
libertarianism of the arrogant, no - nothing young.
This is where
libertarianism rubber meets the road.
I'm just saying that his «libertarian worldview» may not share much in common with the «progressive
libertarianism» of our bourgoeis bohemians or even our Straussians....
Most say that Peter is not a «real» conservative because he on occasion criticizes
libertarianism.
Check out Penn Jillette's opinion piece on atheism and
libertarianism.
It isn't conservatism and it isn't
libertarianism.
To avoid what he so beautifully calls «a hostile polity contemptuous of truth, justice, law, and beauty,» Christians need to do more than draw empty distinctions to
libertarianism.
The transhumanism of Humanity 4.5 is thus an extreme expression of
the libertarianism that is spreading through American society, increasingly bankrolling and driving the agenda of both major political parties.
In asking such a question, he offered us a perspective that cuts against both the statist liberalism that is now in power and the anti-statist
libertarianism that asserts itself as statism's only principled alternative.
«They're about national sovereignty, but they're also quite liberal, leaning on a form of left -
libertarianism,» said Menghi.
PAK: I have to admit it is quite frustrating when people reduce Catholic Social Teaching to economics: labor - capital relations, workers» unions, minimum wage laws, the problems of socialism and
libertarianism, that sort of thing.
Extreme
libertarianism brings out the thoughtful moderation in our Porcher friend.