The normally liberal writers of Slate have gotten themselves worked up over the ascendant liberal enthusiasm for food policing and other paternalisms. The article is primarily about taxing sugary soda. As a raging Tenther of a libertarian I find this idea ... mostly unobjectionable. I more or less agree with Matt Yglesias on this: you have to raise ( Read more... )

I've been reading a bit lately about the 'liberaltarian' concept/project. The idea was laid out by Brink Lindsey, a Cato Institute guy, here. And Will Wilkinson recently blogged about it again. The idea is that the old, brittle alliance between libertarians and conservatives has outlived its usefulness and that a new, brittle alliance should be ( Read more... )