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Before Leviathan Wakes - by Dean W. Ball - Hyperdimensional

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Why I Believe What I Believe

My political philosophy, as with many reflective people on the right, is characterized by a fundamental and irreconcilable tension between libertarianism and conservatism. I am, in most ways that matter for policy, a libertarian. The fancier phrase is classical liberal, but this is primarily a label that grown-up libertarians use to distinguish themselves from adolescent (or adolescent-brained) libertarians. More precisely, people use “classical liberal” to signal that they have libertarian impulses, but are also not unreflective about the role of the state in providing a stable business…

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