Must one pile on Jacob Weisberg? Why yes, one must.
24th October 2008
Megan McArdle examines the noise being emitted about the “death of libertarianism”.
To put it another way, society has multiple possible equilibria, and some of those equilibria are better than others. Removing the existing set of rules does not, of itself, guarantee or even make it particularly likely that we will arrive at a better one.
And this is the central truth about politics that progressives don’t even bother to deny because it’s entirely off their radar.