Word: libertarianism
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...hope that all points of view could be allowed at least token representation. With monetarists clamoring for state control of currency, Keynesians for state control of currency and investment, and Marxists for state control of these and everything else besides, is it too much to ask for a few libertarian economists, content to teach the workings of an unhampered market? Lawrence H. white '77 Marc E. Chardon '75 Christopher M. Berendes '77 Susan G. Cole...
...being handled at Abercrombie and Fitch, a violent force is knocking out a plaster wall, blowing away cinderblock partitions, fracturing a living human skull, injuring three other people and sending rubble and shock waves in all directions. The offices of the Political Rights Defense Fund and those of two libertarian organizations have been ruined...
...does not curtail the freedom of others. This is my version of democracy's Scylla and Charybdis: to determine if and when the freedom of one becomes the oppression of another. For example, I would not oppose the censorship of cinema clearly promoting and advocating rape (I expect civil libertarian purists would take issue with me on this.). But cinema depicting sex practices which do not involve coercion belongs, in my viewpoint, in the category of expression of a minority view which does not curtail the freedom of others...
...music alone which won the audience. Dylan earned his first standing ovation before he played a note. Ten years ago, Dylan stood for a potent strain in the American mood, a libertarian current last exemplified in folk music as forcefully by Woody Guthrie. Today, Dylan stands for essentially the same thing; it is only that the times have changed so that people appreciate him more...
...nominate a true conservationist and civil libertarian for Man of the Year: Justice William O. Douglas...