Bill's Notes

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.
"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.


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