2. "Who is the most influential American gentile economist?" So: no Jews, no foreigners.
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3. Sailer's comment reminds me of a general law: all comment sections are bad but libertarian websites have the worst comments of all.
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4. There's a huge gap between the intelligence of articles in places like Reason and the gibbering bigotry that often flourishes in comments
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5. To theorize a little, there's an unusually large gap between high-brow libertarianism and popular libertarianism.
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6. Popular libertarianism is something else: not an ideology so much as a set of white male resentments & twitches over status issues.
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7. This gets at oft-raised issue of whether the left can form an alliance with libertarians. Answer is: which libertarians?
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8. With someone like
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9. Libertarian writers like
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10. But as distinct from libertarian intellectuals, is there anything with popular libertarianism left can work with? Not much, I'd say.
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@notjessewalker That's a good point -- my broad brush comments ignore genuine grass-root diversity of libertarians outside DC
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