We can also learn much from Tocqueville or Manent or Beneton about the excesses of our individualism, about our inability to keep Locke in the Locke box, about the horror that is Roe v. Wade and the mean womyn side of our feminism, and about the more narcissistic and laughably risk - averse elements of our creeping and sometimes
creepy libertarianism.
But our civilizing institutions also have to be defended against the creeping and
creepy libertarianism of our time.
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.