Economics professor Steven Horwitz contemplates that possibility and the difficulties involved in this Freeman column.
Lots of intelligent writing in the piece. Horwitz says that libertarians must avoid treating progressives as if they were evil or stupid, but try to show, without condescension, that they have made some intellectual errors in their diagnosis of our ailments. In particular, Horwitz writes, “Progressives are right that these social pathologies (poverty, e.g.) are largely structural, but they are wrong about which structures cause them. Why don’t libertarians start by agreeing with the premise, then engaging our Progressive friends in a conversation about how government intervention is responsible for most of what they are rightly concerned about?”
