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17 unusual facts about libertarianism


Ain't Nobody's Business

Author Peter McWilliams used the song and its theme as the title of his libertarian book, Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in our Free Country.

Alan Charles Kors

He writes pieces for both libertarian and conservative journals on political matters.

Alfian Sa'at

The book was acclaimed as "truly a landmark for poetry in Singapore" by The Straits Times, and Alfian himself was described by Malaysia's New Straits Times as "one of the most acclaimed poets in his country... a prankish provocateur, libertarian hipster".

Charles Dunoyer

The latter relationship is discussed most fully by libertarian Leonard Liggio in "Charles Dunoyer and French Classical Liberalism".

Colby Cosh

He graduated from the University of Alberta in 1993, doing further study in European intellectual history under libertarian scholar Ronald Hamowy.

Consequentialist libertarianism

Unlike deontological libertarians, consequentialist libertarians advocate actions they believe bring about favorable consequences regardless of whether these constitute initiation of force.

Dick Erixon

During the 2002 election he had however toured with the libertarian Free List party (Fria Listan), which gained little support and was eventually dissolved.

Giancarlo Pagliarini

Pagliarini is a moderate, sometimes dissenting with the party's social-conservative agenda, a libertarian, especially on economic issues, and a prominent supporter of fiscal federalism and fiscal conservatism.

John-Henri Holmberg

A leading libertarian, he introduced Ayn Rand into Swedish debate in the 1970s and later saw to the publication in Swedish of her main literary works.

Left-libertarianism

They see Walmart as a symbol of corporate favoritism—supported by highway subsidies and eminent domain—view the fictive personhood of the limited-liability corporation with suspicion, and doubt that Third World sweatshops would be the "best alternative" in the absence of government manipulation.

Leigh Scott

Through his interviews and blogs on Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood, Scott has expressed his political views and is a self described Libertarian with some socially conservative views.

Leslie Knope

She is firmly committed to the belief that government should provide a service for its people, and regularly goes above and beyond for the benefits of Pawnee's residents - a belief that regularly clashes with her superior Ron Swanson, a staunch libertarian who feels all government should be privatized.

Mark Hinkle

Mark Hinkle (born January 28, 1951) is an American libertarian activist and businessman.

Sam Tripoli

Tripoli is known for his wild, uncensored material, aversion to political correctness, sexual content, libertarian views, and desire to be a crimefighter.

Scissorfight

The band has a strong libertarian viewpoint and defines itself as "acid mountain rock".

Sex Herald

The main goal of Sex Herald is to promote a libertarian outlook on today’s issues while also representing adult entertainment as what the magazine editors regard it to be: a legal and vital economic industry that is made for adults by adults.

Tracy Tormé

During an interview with Brad Linaweaver during the 1990s, Tormé said he has libertarian tendencies and that he voted for Harry Browne, the Libertarian Party's candidate for U.S. President in 1996.


Charlie Dooley

In a difficult mid-term election season for Democrats, Dooley was elected to serve a second full term as County Executive in 2010, defeating the Republican nominee, Bill Corrigan, 51.1% to 46.7%, with the Libertarian candidate receiving 2.2% of the vote.

Conservatives and Social Reformers

In the 2013 general election the CSR de facto endorsed Stop the Decline, a libertarian party led by Oscar Giannino and Civic Choice party led by Mario Monti.

Costa Rican general election, 2006

Otto Guevara Guth is the co-founder, along with Rigoberto Stewart and Raúl Costales Domínguez, of the Movimiento Libertario, a libertarian party.

David Boaz

He is the author of Libertarianism: A Primer, published in 1997 by the Free Press and described by the Los Angeles Times as "a well-researched manifesto of libertarian ideas."

He frequently discusses such topics as education choice, the growth of government, the ownership society, his support of drug legalization, and the rise of libertarianism on national television and radio shows.

E.C. Riegel

Best selling libertarian author Harry Browne, in the introduction to his 1974 book You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis described Riegel's book The New Approach to Freedom as “The best explanation of the free market I've seen.

EconLog

EconLog bloggers frequently carry out open conversations with other bloggers including those at Marginal Revolution, Overcoming Bias, and Libertarianism.org.

Franz Oppenheimer

It was translated into English, French, Hungarian, Serbian, Japanese, Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian and has impressed and inspired very different thinkers like Israeli Dan Halutz, American communitarians, and American libertarians like Albert Jay Nock, Murray Rothbard and Frank Chodorov.

Gas tax holiday

Clinton demurred when asked to name a single economist who supported the holiday, but libertarian George Mason professor Bryan Caplan wrote a New York Times op-ed arguing that "we could do a lot worse than the gas tax holiday."

Gianfranco Miglio

An advocate of federalism, Miglio grew even more radical in his later years, moving to a confederal or even secessionist and libertarian standpoint, in part due to his readings of Étienne de La Boétie and Henry David Thoreau.

Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs

The idea to establish an institute to promote libertarian ideals was first mooted by Wan Saiful Wan Jan, Tunku 'Abidin Muhriz, and Wan Mohd Firdaus Wan Mohd Fuaad in early 2006, who thought there was a need to promote libertarian (classical liberal) ideas to Malaysians in a more strategic and organised fashion.

Jared Taylor

Taylor has also given support to Hans-Hermann Hoppe's attempts to persuade libertarians to oppose immigration; he generally approves of Hoppe's work, although he sees the pursuit of a society with no government at all to be "the sort of experiment one might prefer to watch in a foreign country before attempting it oneself".

Jim Vicevich

Vicevich, a self-labeled social libertarian and political conservative, often frames his commentary between bumper-music from upstart Americana performers.

John Stagliano

Stagliano espouses a libertarian political philosophy, and has been a significant financial contributor to the Cato Institute and the Reason Foundation, both libertarian think tanks.

Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

Libertarian writer David Ramsay Steele described Peikoff's effort as "slapdash" and filled with positions that were "wrong, vacuous or trite".

The FairTax Book

The FairTax Book is a non-fiction book by libertarian radio talk show host Neal Boortz and Congressman John Linder, published on August 2, 2005, as a tool to increase public support and understanding for the FairTax plan.

The New Ledger

The New Ledger is an American web publication which pairs aggregated and ranked news stories with right of center opinion articles by free-market minded moderates, libertarians and conservatives.

Third Way

In the United States, "Third Way" adherents embrace fiscal conservatism to a greater extent than traditional social liberals, and advocate some replacement of welfare with workfare, and sometimes have a stronger preference for market solutions to traditional problems (as in pollution markets), while rejecting pure laissez-faire economics and other libertarian positions.

Two-stage model of free will

In 1995 Alfred Mele, clearly influenced by Daniel Dennett and Robert Kane, proposed his "Modest Libertarianism", a two-stage process that combines an incompatibilist early phase followed by a compatibilist control phase.

Warwick Collins

Collins's political views were liberal and libertarian, but (in 1979) he was asked by Keith Joseph to join a Conservative party think tank chaired by John Hoskyns (who became Chief Political Adviser to Margaret Thatcher) to work on issues such as privatisation.