{"id":26040,"date":"2015-01-28T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T06:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26040"},"modified":"2015-01-23T21:25:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T02:25:59","slug":"qotd-the-libertarian-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/01\/28\/qotd-the-libertarian-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The libertarian movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The libertarian or \u201cfreedom movement\u201d is a loose and baggy monster that includes the Libertarian Party; Ron Paul fans of all ages; <em>Reason<\/em> magazine subscribers; glad-handers at Cato Institute\u2019s free-lunch events in D.C.; Ayn Rand obsessives and Robert Heinlein buffs; the curmudgeons at <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Antiwar.com<\/a>; most of the economics department at George Mason University and up to about one-third of all Nobel Prize winners in economics; the beautiful mad dreamers at The Free State Project; and many others. As with all movements, there\u2019s never a single nerve center or brain that controls everything. There\u2019s an endless amount of in-fighting among factions [&#8230;] On issues such as economic regulation, public spending, and taxes, libertarians tend to roll with the conservative right. On other issues \u2014 such as civil liberties, gay marriage, and drug legalization, we find more common ground with the progressive left.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Gillespie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/05\/30\/charles-and-david-koch-the-minds-behind-libertarianism-3-0.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Libertarianism 3.0; Koch And A Smile&#8221;, <em>The Daily Beast<\/em><\/a>, 2014-05-30.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The libertarian or \u201cfreedom movement\u201d is a loose and baggy monster that includes the Libertarian Party; Ron Paul fans of all ages; Reason magazine subscribers; glad-handers at Cato Institute\u2019s free-lunch events in D.C.; Ayn Rand obsessives and Robert Heinlein buffs; the curmudgeons at Antiwar.com; most of the economics department at George Mason University and up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41],"tags":[67,550,332,478],"class_list":["post-26040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-quotations","tag-aynrand","tag-libertarianism","tag-nobelprize","tag-robertheinlein"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6M0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26042,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26040\/revisions\/26042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}