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“Chinese mercantilism is not free trade, but it is far better than American militarism.”

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Ilana Mercer is a writer whose works span across political, social, and cultural domains. She is known for her distinctive writing style and clear viewpoints, which have won her a dedicated readership. more

“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.”

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“We're not all the same. A common liberal refrain is that differences between individuals are statistically more significant than those between cultural, ethnic, and racial groups. I don't see why the fact of inter-individual differences would nullify inter-group variance. That's liberal logic for you.”

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“Obamacare is a marketplace in the same way the Knockout Game is a game.”

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“Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.”

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“Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder.”

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“The strength of ideas rests on their relationship to reality. MacKinnon’s unrealistic fulminations against a phantom patriarchy exist in the arid arena of pure thought.”

Ideas Reality

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“The National Education Association is the al-Qaida of education.”

Als Association

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