{"id":37784,"date":"2017-03-22T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37784"},"modified":"2020-07-06T10:44:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T14:44:05","slug":"a-check-in-from-the-libertarian-writers-mafia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/03\/22\/a-check-in-from-the-libertarian-writers-mafia\/","title":{"rendered":"A check-in from the “libertarian writers\u2019 mafia”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the most recent issue of the Libertarian Enterprise<\/em>, J. Neil Schulman<\/a> talks about “rational security”:<\/p>\n

Two of my favorite authors \u2014 Robert A Heinlein and Ayn Rand \u2014 favored a limited government that would provide an effective national defense against foreign invaders and foreign spies. Rand died March 6, 1982; Heinlein on May 8, 1988 \u2014 both of them well before domestic terrorism by foreign nationals or immigrants was a major political issue.<\/p>\n

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Both Heinlein and Rand, however, were aware of domestic political violence, industrial sabotage, and foreign espionage by both foreigners and immigrants, going back before their own births \u2014 Rand February 2, 1905, Heinlein July 7, 1907.<\/p>\n

Both Heinlein and Rand wrote futuristic novels portraying totalitarianism (including expansive government spying on its own citizens) within the United States. Both authors also portrayed in their fiction writing and discussed in their nonfiction writing the chaos caused by capricious government control over individual lives and private property.<\/p>\n

In their tradition, I\u2019ve done quite a bit of that, also, in my own fiction and nonfiction.<\/p>\n

So has my libertarian friend author Brad Linaweaver, whose writings I try never to miss an opportunity to plug.<\/p>\n

Brad, like myself, writes in the tradition of Heinlein and Rand \u2014 more so even than I do, since Brad also favors limited government while I am an anarchist. Nonetheless I am capable of making political observations and analysis from a non-anarchist viewpoint.<\/p>\n

We come to this day in which Brad and I find ourselves without the comfort and living wisdom of Robert A. Heinlein and Ayn Rand. We are now both in our sixties, old enough to be libertarian literary elders.<\/p>\n

Oh, we\u2019re not the only ones. L. Neil Smith still writes libertarian novels and opines on his own The Libertarian Enterprise<\/em>. There are others of our \u201clibertarian writers\u2019 mafia\u201d still living and writing, but none as politically focused as we are \u2014 and often, in our opinion, not as good at keeping their eyes on the ball.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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