[T.Smith]

What tedious writing. He has invested far too much energy into trying to sound high minded.

[Domandred]

Ezra Taft Benson was a much better writter and speaker

[Silly]

I was going to say the same thing. What a blowhard. Loves the sound of his voice, I guess.

[muir_redwoods]

The Founders had more in common with today's libertarians than with today's conservatives.

It's much better company than Russell Kirk

[BlazingArizona]

What tedious writing. He has invested far too much energy into trying to sound high minded.

You have to keep in mind that this was written in the early part of the Cold War, when the ancestors of today's Lew Rockwellians were arguing that Communism was an imaginary threat, and that defending ourselves against it was not worth a dime of public funds.

Actually, Kirk was a follower of Edmund Burke, whose core belief was that traditional values were good not because they were handed to us by God, but because they had been tested by generations of human trial and error. The libertarian belief is that moral codes that have been derived this way are vastly superior to those imposed on us by governments.

[right way right]

Libertarian think tank = Toilet