{"id":6077,"date":"2011-07-01T19:17:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T19:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=6077"},"modified":"2011-07-01T19:27:55","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T19:27:55","slug":"the-superficiality-of-pop-libertarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-superficiality-of-pop-libertarianism\/","title":{"rendered":"The superficiality of &#8216;pop-libertarianism&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sympathetic to a lot of the specific policy prescriptions of publications like <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/\">Reason<\/a>. Though I&#8217;m no philosophical libertarian, I converge with libertarians when it comes to attitudes on specific issues. But outside of think tanks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/\">Cato<\/a> a lot of mainstream libertarianism seems rather glib and superficial. This diavlog between Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie is a case in point of style over substance:<\/p>\n<p><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/static.bloggingheads.tv\/ramon\/_live\/players\/player_v5.2-licensed.swf\" flashvars=\"diavlogid=37093&#038;file=http:\/\/bloggingheads.tv\/diavlogs\/liveplayer-playlist-ramon\/37093\/00:00\/62:52&#038;config=http:\/\/static.bloggingheads.tv\/ramon\/_live\/files\/offsite_config.xml&#038;topics=false\" height=\"288\" width=\"380\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" id=\"bhtv37093\" name=\"bhtv37093\"><\/embed> <\/p>\n<p>Obviously I agree with Welch and Gillespie on issues like airline deregulation, but who cares about the growing fraction of independents? It&#8217;s a robust social science finding that most independents are actually rather reliable partisan voters. On the contrary to the inference made in the discussion, the past generation has seen a rise in the nominal identification of independents, but greater practical polarization. There&#8217;s no there, there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sympathetic to a lot of the specific policy prescriptions of publications like Reason. Though I&#8217;m no philosophical libertarian, I converge with libertarians when it comes to attitudes on specific issues. But outside of think tanks like Cato a lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-superficiality-of-pop-libertarianism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6080,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077\/revisions\/6080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}