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Our Paramour, the State

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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Is There a Block of Libertarians in This Country?

libertarianism is eccentris. It's popular. Blubabbablas. And and the problem th that, as i was writing 20 years ago nd ten years ago, i've moved on to have different white whales. A is a. The problem is, every american considers themselves libertarian in the sense that they want total freedom for the things they wanttotal freedom for. But the things they don't want totalfreedom for, they don’t want other people to have total fredom for either. I mean, that just on the simple personal hypocrisy level. Also on the political level, am, you know, all all political philosophies fail on their own terms.

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