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The libertarian sublime

Ravi Iyer, Spassena Koleva, and Jesse Graham (USC), Peter Ditto (UC-Irvine), and Jonathan Haidt (Virginia): Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians. From The Point, Justin Evans on the Olympics, craft fairs and the libertarian sublime. From the Center for a Stateless Society, Kevin Carson on libertarianism and liberalism: What went wrong. The mad dream of a libertarian dictatorship: Jesse Walker on the long-lived, utterly insane idea of an autocrat imposing freedom. A review of Ron Paul’s Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired by Brian Doherty. Matthew Yglesias on the myth of the libertarian Internet. From Liberty, Barry Loberfeld on liberty against anarchy: “While the debate of anarchism vs. limited government has long divided the movement, champions of a social theory should be able to explain to others what practice it logically leads to”. Andrew Potter on a sentence that should be tattooed on the forehead of every libertarian. Russell Hasan on libertarian aphorisms. When libertarianism fails: Chinatown buses revolutionized urban transit but had awful safety records, proving not every ingenious idea is good.