"The libertarian icon Karl Hess used to make fun of libertarians who defined themselves as Hayekians or Misesians, saying they were in same trap of Marxists who called themselves Stalinists or Trotskyists. Karl Hess, like Mario Vargas Llosa thought that politics was more than a devotion to a certain political philosopher or only economics but the product of one’s own experience and culture."
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"the best part about the Trump phenomenon is that no one in the punditocracy can explain it."
"I’m glad this kind of overplayed hand keeps happening. The media isn’t going to report on what a joke it is, but it’s going to make more conservatives than the Koch brothers could ever hope to."
"Liberal views about sexuality and the human person have always been backwards and contradictory."
"When people speak of the country going in an anarchist direction, they confuse the chaos and the masked protesters with I think a much deeper concept of anarchy."
"Understandably, the concept of cities ignoring the rules has incensed law-and-order conservatives. But they should take a step back and think through the issue. From a limited-government standpoint, doesn’t more local autonomy make sense? Aren’t decisions made at the local level better than those at the state or federal level? By slamming sanctuary cities, conservatives are wasting a great opportunity."
"Jim Webb has strong record of talking about justice for minority communities, however I think he would be dismissed by #BlackLivesMatter for his cultural conservativism. This is a mistake."
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"An important American intellectual strand of the right seems to me to have been left out of this online profusion of non-mainstream views. Since I know of no better name for it, and because of the admiration for the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche common to its members, I’ll refer to this tradition as right-wing Nietzscheanism. It includes figures like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Learned Hand, and Richard Posner."
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"Liberal identity politics today is a powerful ally to the neoliberal status quo, because it is very difficult to find a perfect progressive."
"We don’t (or shouldn’t) go to war because we love the the enemy’s suffering. It’s a savage mindset to think that the losers of a war need to be crushed, destroyed and humiliated with their memories shat on. This kind of ruthless militarism is what needs to be consigned to the trash heap of history, not the memorials of our fallen enemies. Puritanical ideology brings out all kinds of heartless impulses."
"So take your gluten-free diets, your A.D.D.-causing software, your porn machines, and your “singularity” and leave the country."
"Dean Hall, your work isn’t done. You won’t have even gotten rid of all the Confederacy-apologizing Presbyterian bigots yet."
