Libertarians are only half right according to Ryan T. Anderson, Heritage Foundation’s new William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and a Free Society (here is his Heritage bio). Anderson will remain editor of Public Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, NJ. In an e-mail I received because I am on the list for Public Discourse, Anderson says about his Heritage project: “The basic project is to work on developing a natural law account of economic rights and justice, which flows nicely out of my dissertation research (which, working from a natural law perspective, critiques social welfare statists and libertarians as each getting about half of it right and half of it wrong).” Libertarians may be half right, but conservatives are all wrong when they want to lock people in cages for smoking a plant.
There has been an interesting debate at Public Discourse between conservative Nathan Schlueter and libertarian Nikolai G. Wenzel. See here and here.
