“I sometimes joke that there are only around 15 true libertarians in America, and they all wear bow ties”—Nobel Prize dude Paul Krugman, holding forth in today’s NYT. Assuming that that’s true, one can only pity Paul’s friends, if he has any. I know a number of “true libertarians”, though probably not 15, and none…
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An Embarrassment of Libertarians
Over at the Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf wonders, politely, why the fuck the libertarians get all the weirdos, riffing on Rand Paul’s aide and co-author, Jack Hunter, in a piece titled “Rand Paul’s Aide: A Dunce on the Confederacy.” Full-bore libertarian Matt Welch expresses similar thoughts at Reason, under the snappy title “Rand Paul Co-Author Jack…