Locke (not John) on Libertarianism

Reading Marxism of the Right, in the March 14, 2005 issue of The American Conservative, by Robert Locke [respek to my bud Tony Diehl], I could not get much past the first paragraph without feeling the impulse to annotate. Opens Locke, “Free spirits, the ambitious, ex-socialists, drug users, and sexual eccentrics often find an attractive political philosophy in libertarianism, the idea that individual freedom should be the sole rule of ethics and government. Libertarianism offers its believers a clear conscience to do things society presently restrains, like make more money, have more sex, or take more drugs.” Wow. In the … Continue reading Locke (not John) on Libertarianism