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...Internet, Usenet and the World Wide Web, which threaten his software monopoly by shifting the nexus of control from stand-alone computers to the network that connects them. The Internet, by design, has no central operating system that Microsoft or anybody else can patent and license. And its libertarian culture is devoted to open--that is to say, nonproprietary--standards, none of which were set by Microsoft...
Taken separately, each group has many reasons not to vote for the same person. Economic conservatives often have libertarian views about government intervention in personal lives. Many antiabortion advocates and pro-family conservatives benefit from the types of government programs a fiscal conservative like Buchanan would eliminate. Nonetheless, they all seem to believe fervently in Buchanan, perhaps because he seems to believe so fervently in what he says. He is not the product of a pollster or a focus group. And that sometimes gets him into trouble as well...
...history. It began as holy music in medieval churches, soon expanded to embrace aristocrats as a matter of theocratic course and extended to intellectuals in the Renaissance. Because composers relied on wealthy patrons to survive, the audience did not change significantly until the late 18th century. Beethoven, full of libertarian ideas and the furor of the French Revolution, threw open the doors of classical music to the middle classes by the boldness of his work and his status as (after several years) the first major patron-less composer. Classical music then underwent a period of mass popularization, including the incorporation...
...spring semester, I noticed some quotes from my editorials on the "Out of Context" page of Peninsula magazine. If you've never seen it before, Peninsula is a monthly Harvard student publication that attempts to blend the teachings of Jesus, free market and libertarian ideologies with the racial sensibilities of David Duke. Mainly, it serves as a monument to self-righteous hubris, but when I first saw a copy of Peninsula at my door, I wondered why Dean Epps had allowed trash to be door-dropped...
Unfortunately, even this glimmer of hope dissolves after a few moments of analysis. Libertarian "movements" like Mass-Can represent not the activism, but rather the pseudo-politicization of college students. Their empty promises of "self-realization" lead not to an emancipatory politics, but rather only to more consumerist frustrations. They represent the conservatism of frivolity--the betrayal of political commitment for the isolation of individualism...