{"id":52617,"date":"2020-02-13T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=52617"},"modified":"2020-02-12T08:11:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T13:11:41","slug":"qotd-libertarianism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/02\/13\/qotd-libertarianism-2\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Libertarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>I make here the case for a modern and humane version of what is often called &#8220;libertarianism.&#8221; It is not right wing, reactionary, or some very scary creature out of dark money. It stands in the middle of the road \u2013 recently a dangerous place to stand \u2013 being tolerant and optimistic and respectful. It&#8217;s true liberal, that is, anti-statist, opposing the impulse of people to push other people around. It&#8217;s not &#8220;I&#8217;ve got mine,&#8221; or &#8220;Let&#8217;s be cruel.&#8221; Nor is it &#8220;I&#8217;m from the government and I&#8217;m here to help you, by force of arms if necessary.&#8221; It&#8217;s &#8220;I respect your dignity and am willing to listen, really listen, helping you when you wish, on your own terms.&#8221; When people grasp it, most like it. Give it a try.<\/p>\n<p>Dierdre Nansen McCloskey, <em>Why Liberalism Works: How true Liberal values produce a freer, more equal, properous world for all<\/em>, 2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I make here the case for a modern and humane version of what is often called &#8220;libertarianism.&#8221; It is not right wing, reactionary, or some very scary creature out of dark money. It stands in the middle of the road \u2013 recently a dangerous place to stand \u2013 being tolerant and optimistic and respectful. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[25,10,53,41],"tags":[550],"class_list":["post-52617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-libertarianism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dGF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52617","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=52617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54940,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52617\/revisions\/54940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}