Review: What the Hell Is a ‘Libertarian Authoritarian’?
In Offended Freedom: The Rise of Libertarian Authoritarianism, two Swiss sociologists, Carolin Amlinger and Oliver Nachtwey, indulge in a common academic habit: blaming libertarians for an intellectual and social phenomena that they find alarming. Their bill of particulars fails to stick because of conceptual incoherence, mistaking radical opposition to any government policy—even one that allows more liberty than the disgruntled person wants—as “libertarian,” and categorizing perfectly understandable anger at government ove
Article from Reason.com
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