“Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of crimes. To say, moreover, that the state's laws made masses of men and women commit such crimes is to voice the philosophy of determinism, not individualism.” ThinkingMenMadeSaidStatesPhilosophyLawVoiceCrimeMassMen And WomenPropertyLibertarianStealingImmigrationCommitGuiltyAliensBordersIndividualismPrivate PropertyDeterminismImmigration Laws Author:Ilana Mercer
“A crucial difference between lite libertarians and the right kind is that to the former, the idea of liberty is propositional - a deracinated principle, unmoored from the realities of history, hierarchy, biology, tradition, culture, values. Conversely, the paleolibertarian grasps that ordered liberty has a civilizational dimension, stripped of which the libertarian non-aggression axiom, by which we all must live, cannot endure.” KindIdeasRealityValuesCultureDifferencesLibertyPrinciplesTraditionEndureLibertarianFormerDimensionsBiologyCrucialAggressionHierarchyAxioms Author:Ilana Mercer
“Prosperity and penury do not turn on gyno-centric and gay matters. But leftist statists and libertarians of the left place these wedge issues at the forefront of the fight for freedom. [...] Every bit as bad as liberals, "libertarian" political operators are prepared to shed political blood over any imagined sign of bigotry.” MatterPoliticalTurnsFightingLeftBitsIssuesBloodGayPreparedProsperityLibertarianBigotryShedTurn-onLeftistsOperatorsWedgesFighting For Freedom Author:Ilana Mercer
“By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate standards set by the PC set are somehow defective on those grounds alone and deserve to be purged from "polite" company.” ShouldCompanySpeechStandardsDeserveLibertarianPoliteProprietyDefectiveStandards Set Author:Ilana Mercer
