http://www.cato-unbound.org 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/contributors/brink-lindsey/comment-page-1/#comment-87347 Donklephant » Blog Archive » Curing libertarian political impotence - a prescription for Electile Dysfunction Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:49:04 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/contributors/brink-lindsey/#comment-87347 [...] Brink Lindsey (not pictured above) of the Cato Institute kicked off the July Cato Unbound series with an essay seeking to locate and describe The Libertarian Center in the American political landscape. He weaves two themes into the essay, the first positing the existence of this libertarian political center, while making the case that it is growing as a natural outcome of American economic abundance: “American society has become more libertarian because, more than any other country on the planet, it has successfully adapted to the novel conditions of economic abundance. And because of the way this adaptation took place, a broadly defined libertarianism now occupies the center of the American political spectrum.” This theme is explored more broadly in Lindsey’s recent book The Age of Abundance which inspired the masthead and headline for the monthly Cato Unbound topic. Others around the blogosphere are debating the merits of his basic thesis, including Atlantician Matthew Yglesias , Michael van der Galiën and Angry Blogger Brian Moore. I am more interested in exploring a secondary theme in Lindsey’s essay, libertarian political impotence. [...] [...] Brink Lindsey (not pictured above) of the Cato Institute kicked off the July Cato Unbound series with an essay seeking to locate and describe The Libertarian Center in the American political landscape. He weaves two themes into the essay, the first positing the existence of this libertarian political center, while making the case that it is growing as a natural outcome of American economic abundance: “American society has become more libertarian because, more than any other country on the planet, it has successfully adapted to the novel conditions of economic abundance. And because of the way this adaptation took place, a broadly defined libertarianism now occupies the center of the American political spectrum.” This theme is explored more broadly in Lindsey’s recent book The Age of Abundance which inspired the masthead and headline for the monthly Cato Unbound topic. Others around the blogosphere are debating the merits of his basic thesis, including Atlantician Matthew Yglesias , Michael van der Galiën and Angry Blogger Brian Moore. I am more interested in exploring a secondary theme in Lindsey’s essay, libertarian political impotence. [...]

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