Ask why libertarianism is so widely disliked and the answers come back remarkably consistent. One recent survey of the criticism sorts them into a few bins: the philosophy is said to put individual rights above any collective claim, to favor […]
A Meadow of Sacred Cows named the tell: a sacred cow is an arrangement defended, when it's defended at all, in the language of necessity or tradition, while the actual reason it survives is that a concentrated beneficiary never has […]
"Unsafe Safety" argued that "safety" earns the deference it currently gets for free only when a claim survives being checked — a stated mechanism, a measurable harm, a cost that's actually been weighed, and a review process that puts the […]
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