Daily Archive: May 19, 2010

I Called It: Sestak Style

I don’t take to the pages of Ordinary Gents to brag very often (I hope), but I feel like this mini-post from last year where I advised Joe Sestak to run against Arlen Specter...

The tinkerer’s disposition

We owe where we are to the habit — and the freedom — of tinkering. ~ Jason, on the libertarian disposition I think there are two types of tinkering. There is the tinkering of...

The conservative disposition

Jason has just given you the liberal-libertarian disposition, so I thought I’d try my hand at explaining why I’m sometimes drawn to the conservative alternative. My knowledge of political philosophy is almost nil, so...

re: Liberaltarianism as a Disposition

On first glance, I see much less basic sympathy between liberals and libertarians than Jason does. American liberals — of the type embodied by Lyndon Johnson and Barack Obama — tend to be more...

Liberaltarianism as a Disposition

Mark Thompson offers a two-part analysis of liberaltarianism. I suspect there are three. Part one looks back at the intellectual history of liberalism. We know the refrain by now: Bastiat sat on the Left....