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Brink Lindsey, the vice
president for research at the Cato Institute, argues in “Where Do
Libertarians Belong?” (page 22) that libertarians aren’t well
served by aligning with conservatives. But until sometime during
the Bush administration, Lindsey considered himself a “conservative
sympathizer.” In 2006 Lindsey wrote an essay that argued for a
liberal-libertarian coalition and popularized the term
liberaltarian. He didn’t invent the word, and he now says
he finds the sound of it “grotesque.” Still, he says, “it is a
handy tag for liberals who appreciate key libertarian insights but
who don’t buy into the whole package.”
Jonah Goldberg, editor at large
for National Review Online, is the author of the
bestselling Liberal Fascism (Doubleday). In his response
to Lindsey’s essay (page 28), he makes the case for a continued
conservative-libertarian fusionism. Goldberg, a conservative
himself, says he has drifted toward libertarianism over the years
because “libertarians understand better than both liberals and
conservatives that the government cannot love you.”
In another reply to Lindsey (page 31),
FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe argues that Tea Party activists
make a positive contribution to libertarian politics. The funniest
thing he’s ever seen at a Tea Party event? A sign reading,
“Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly
and for the same reason.” Kibbe, who has an economics degree from
Grove City College and who once served as the senior economist for
the Republican National Committee, thinks F.A. Hayek would have
been a Tea Partier—but only with “proper attire,” he says. “Like
his mentor Ludwig von Mises, he would have always kept his jacket
and tie on, without compromise.”
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