[Bill,
March 12, 2008]
Even now, we conservatives get converts
Note: NOT Republicans. Conservatives.
First George McGovern last weeks a spirited defense of libertarianism. (I always knew George would come around.)
Now David Mamet.
Read the whole thing. It's an excellent exposition of the two world views at stake, and how we sorta work it out, anyway.
First George McGovern last weeks a spirited defense of libertarianism. (I always knew George would come around.)
Now David Mamet.
"Aha," you will say, and you are right. I began reading not only the economics of Thomas Sowell (our greatest contemporary philosopher) but Milton Friedman, Paul Johnson, and Shelby Steele, and a host of conservative writers, and found that I agreed with them: a free-market understanding of the world meshes more perfectly with my experience than that idealistic vision I called liberalism.
Read the whole thing. It's an excellent exposition of the two world views at stake, and how we sorta work it out, anyway.