Word: libertarianism
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...only noteworthy anti-Redgrave picket was Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who distributed leaflets outside a theater where she was participating in a benefit, "Boston Against Blacklisting." Though Dershowitz, a renowned civil libertarian and supporter of Israel, defended Redgrave's right to perform, he also supported the orchestra's right to "exercise its freedom of association by refusing to perform with a P.L.O. collaborator...
...colleagues have helped him in his battle. Many far-right Republicans want Percy out so that North Carolina's Jesse Helms, champion of the Moral Majority, might succeed him as head of the Foreign Relations Committee. A group of national conservatives went so far as to endorse a Libertarian candidate in the Illinois race rather than Percy, whom they called a "partisan Democrat in Republican's clothing." Percy denounced the group as "part of the kooky right wing...
William Safire, a self-styled "libertarian conservative," is also out of favor at the White House. In a recent column he complained that though he had once been a "lonely Reagan booster," he has been denied any interviews with Reagan because Safire "from time to time was-in Mr. Reagan's words to a press aide-hostile to us." Partly out of shrewd instinct, partly out of puckish perversity, Safire cannot be counted in anyone's corner, but "when my right-wing confreres and pols depart from principle I feel particularly pained." His working motto is "Kick them...
...proposals by Dershowitz, a staunch civil libertarian, run against a long standing Harvard tradition that it does not award honorary degrees to anyone who does not attend the Commencement exercises in Harvard Yard...
public morality vs. individual liberty. The conservative is prepared to admit that his restrictions curtail liberty, though a kind of liberty he does not think is particularly worth having. The civil libertarian admits that a price of liberty is that it stands to be misused, and that pornography may be one of those misuses; public morality may suffer, but freedom is more precious. Both sides agree, however, that one cannot have everything and may sometimes have to trade one political good for another...