Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Libertarian mugged by reality

Libertarian Mugged by Reality
Alex Beinstein was, like many other a fidgety and overconfident undergraduate who’d sought my company in this way, considerably to the right of center—a libertarian, he told me. . . . Later, as these kids sometimes do, he got back in touch. But something had happened in the interim. That something, in fact, seems to be happening a lot: kids I knew who were conservatives when they lived in the ivory tower were now liberals. The real world has made them that way.

Thanks, Scott!

1 comment:

  1. Oof. The "I pulled myself up by my bootstraps" comments start at the (curent) very top.

    All these precious little successful, hard working libertarian flowers.

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