Word: libertarianism
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Many people feel that neither party offers a coherent set of principles that they can agree with. For them, the choice is whether you believe in Big Government or you don't. And if you don't, you call yourself a libertarian. Libertarians are against government in all its manifestations. Domestically, they are against social-welfare programs. They favor self-reliance (as they see it) over Big Government spending. Internationally, they are isolationists. Like George Washington, they loathe "foreign entanglements," and they think the rest of the world can go to hell without America's help. They don't care...
...relationship of these two ways of thinking to the two established parties is peculiar. Republicans are far more likely to identify themselves as libertarians and to vilify the government in the abstract. And yet Republicans have a clearer vision of what constitutes a good society and a well-run planet and are quicker to try to impose this vision on the rest of us. Now that the Republican Party is in trouble, critics are advising it to free itself of the religious right on issues like abortion and gay rights. That is, the party should become less communitarian and more...
...though it is difficult to say, since he is silent on that point. All this conservative hand-wringing also obscures the fact that however much Harvard twists its requirements, the same types of students would still graduate. We would still turn out to be the mostly nice, libertarian, conformist, intelligent, and morally apathetic generation that we are today. After all, that’s who applied, and that’s who got in. This, actually, is Harvard’s problem, not the focus on ancient Greek history or African history. Why, for example, do all the Ph.D...
This anything-goes approach has made Ron Paul 2008 the electoral equivalent of open-source software. It's a perfect match for the candidate's libertarian fans. Lam has outsourced the tools of online campaigning, giving supporters access to raw video feeds and schedules that are typically controlled by advisers and consultants. It's a hands-on approach that Lam can relate to. "I really like playing with these new tools," she admits. "Iguess I'm kinda geeky...
...recent broadcast of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” America’s perennially cynical libertarian launched into a diatribe protesting the recent phenomenon of lactivism. Yes, lactivism...