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Left-of-center analyst Michael Lind reports for Tablet about recent movement among techies on the West Coast. The “pull” factors of Texas and similar conservative states—the absence of a state income…
Writing for The Freeman, Max Borders lists 30 common fallacies used in “arguments” against libertarian ideas. Most libertarians find they’re arguing in social media these days. So they’re not only…
I have on several occasions recently posted about Michael Lind’s supposedly “unanswerable” question to libertarians. Several libertarians have handed Lind his arrogant head already and in this piece, my friend…
In reviewing Paul Johnson‘s recent biography of Winston Churchill for The Weekly Standard, Steven Hayward ? who’s compared the great British prime minister to America’s 40th president (and others) ?…
Cato’s Michael Cannon here takes on Salon’s Michael Lind, a fellow who thinks that he is really, really clever but isn’t. The subject is whether Obama’s health care plan is…
The New America Foundation, institutional home of Michael Lind, hosted an event on employer-based health insurance. Instead of seeking alternatives or asking whether it makes sense to continue to attach…
Good point, Joe. Despite the failure of government planning everywhere, many people still push it along. Maybe Lind means that socialism is intellectually dead — that it has done about…
George, You bring up a good point about the Lind commentary — he thinks socialism and libertarianism are both dead. Given the continued creeping socialism at all levels of government,…
Thinking back to my post of yesterday on Michael Lind’s argument that libertarian politics is dead, I think it follows if he’s right that what we have to look forward…
In The Unmourned End of Libertarian Politics leftist writer Michael Lind does a sort of victory dance over what he takes to be the final, utter, Waterloo-like defeat of the…
Michael Lind says, “The libertarian moment has passed.” Jonah Goldberg ridiculed the Lind schtick against conservatives five years ago and many of the same arguments apply to this post mortem.…
Michael Lind of the New America Foundation, writing in the Financial Times this morning [no link yet], says, “the dominos are falling across America” instead of the Middle East because…