Friday, December 31, 2004

Peevish about Libertarians

Anne Zook is back! Just for a rant, but her rants are some of the finest reading in cyberspace. This time she's pointing out the hypocrisy, shortsightedness, and ahistorical thinking of libertarians. The only thing I'll say in their defense is that they do seem to have their hearts in the right place, and are often fabulous analysts of politics and power due to their sensitivity to liberty and rights. They're not all hypocrites, but huge grains of salt are necessary....

1 comment:

Daryl McCullough said...

I've had a love/hate relationship...no, not that strong, maybe admire/not-admire relationship with libertarians for a long time. Ultimately, libertarianism is quite flawed as a philosophy, but it is more interesting than most political philosophies. I have a post about libertarianism on my new blog, Combing the Sphere