Ask why libertarianism is so widely disliked and the answers come back remarkably consistent. [One recent survey of the criticism](https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/why-is-libertarianism-hated-c21590) sorts them into a few bins: the philosophy is said to put individual rights above any collective claim, to favor […]
[A Meadow of Sacred Cows](/posts/a-meadow-of-sacred-cows) named the tell: a sacred cow is an arrangement defended, when it's defended at all, in the language of necessity or tradition, while the actual reason it survives is that a concentrated beneficiary never has […]
["Unsafe Safety"](/posts/unsafe-safety) argued that "safety" earns the deference it currently gets for free only when a claim survives being checked — a stated mechanism, a measurable harm, a cost that's actually been weighed, and a review process that puts the […]
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