http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/07/09/brink-lindsey/the-libertarian-center/ Big Ideas for a Better World Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:24:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/07/09/brink-lindsey/the-libertarian-center/comment-page-1/#comment-359302 Club Troppo » Defusing the American Right Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:18:48 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/?p=511#comment-359302 [...] Many of today’s younger libertarians happily combine libertarian economics with support for cultural diversity, feminism and permissiveness. Lindsey argues that libertarians should abandon the culture war and [...] [...] Many of today’s younger libertarians happily combine libertarian economics with support for cultural diversity, feminism and permissiveness. Lindsey argues that libertarians should abandon the culture war and [...]

]]> http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/07/09/brink-lindsey/the-libertarian-center/comment-page-1/#comment-114541 Donklephant » Blog Archive » VBO (Voting by Objective) Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:38:31 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/?p=511#comment-114541 [...] My answer: I no longer vote for a specific political party. Nor do I cast my vote based on a candidate’s personality, or perception of who is the “best man” or what a candidate promises in a campaign. I vote for objectives. I vote for objectives about how our government should act. Objectives that are derived from a set of philosophical beliefs about how we choose to be governed. Objectives informed by the word and intent of our Constitution and Declaration of Independence. The objectives I vote for: Federal government should be limited in scope, provide for common defense, protect and respect individual rights, spend and tax in a fiscally responsible manner, provide effective oversight of elected and appointed representatives, legislate carefully and slowly, and pass only laws that are tempered in the fire of partisan debate. I vote in the hope and expectation of moving our government and country toward these objectives. Many would recognize these objectives as a centrist, moderate and/or small “l” libertarian perspective. [...] [...] My answer: I no longer vote for a specific political party. Nor do I cast my vote based on a candidate’s personality, or perception of who is the “best man” or what a candidate promises in a campaign. I vote for objectives. I vote for objectives about how our government should act. Objectives that are derived from a set of philosophical beliefs about how we choose to be governed. Objectives informed by the word and intent of our Constitution and Declaration of Independence. The objectives I vote for: Federal government should be limited in scope, provide for common defense, protect and respect individual rights, spend and tax in a fiscally responsible manner, provide effective oversight of elected and appointed representatives, legislate carefully and slowly, and pass only laws that are tempered in the fire of partisan debate. I vote in the hope and expectation of moving our government and country toward these objectives. Many would recognize these objectives as a centrist, moderate and/or small “l” libertarian perspective. [...]

]]> http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/07/09/brink-lindsey/the-libertarian-center/comment-page-1/#comment-93558 brinklindsey.com Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:33:22 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/?p=511#comment-93558 [...] In my book and elsewhere (see, for example, here and here), I’ve argued that American society has shifted in a decidedly libertarian direction — i.e., left on culture and right on economics — over the past generation, and that American political culture reflects this shift. Regarding economics at least, Ezra seems to agree: America’s political consensus is almost absurdly to the right. But because people still need to run to the left of each other, the rhetoric on offer frequently sounds like the rhetoric of the left, even as its actual prescriptions are decidedly within the mainstream of our fairly conservative consensus on economics. And vice versa in other countries, where rhetoric of the right can refer to almost comically leftist policies. where the center is much further left — and in other countries, the precise opposite happens. [...] [...] In my book and elsewhere (see, for example, here and here), I’ve argued that American society has shifted in a decidedly libertarian direction — i.e., left on culture and right on economics — over the past generation, and that American political culture reflects this shift. Regarding economics at least, Ezra seems to agree: America’s political consensus is almost absurdly to the right. But because people still need to run to the left of each other, the rhetoric on offer frequently sounds like the rhetoric of the left, even as its actual prescriptions are decidedly within the mainstream of our fairly conservative consensus on economics. And vice versa in other countries, where rhetoric of the right can refer to almost comically leftist policies. where the center is much further left — and in other countries, the precise opposite happens. [...]

]]> http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/07/09/brink-lindsey/the-libertarian-center/comment-page-1/#comment-88548 Brink Lindseys marxistischer Libertarianismus « Kapitalismus-Magazin Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:14:45 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/?p=511#comment-88548 [...] Verfasst von objektivisten am 20. Juli 2007 Blogger Noumenalself ist nur hin und wieder auf seinem Blog aktiv, aber wenn, dann sind seine Beiträge höchst interessant. Am 13. Juli hat er einen Eintrag über Brink Lindseys Version eines, wie Noumenalsefl schreibt, “marxistischen Libertarianismus” verfaßt. [...] [...] Verfasst von objektivisten am 20. Juli 2007 Blogger Noumenalself ist nur hin und wieder auf seinem Blog aktiv, aber wenn, dann sind seine Beiträge höchst interessant. Am 13. Juli hat er einen Eintrag über Brink Lindseys Version eines, wie Noumenalsefl schreibt, “marxistischen Libertarianismus” verfaßt. [...]

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