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Recent Examples of libertarianism
These appearances take the shape of friendly hangouts where Trump and the hosts cover topics like sports, libertarianism, free speech, dads, and conspiracy theories, a topic that connects with the former president’s vigorous deployment of baseless claims.
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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
His libertarianism, however, is qualified by the belief that societies can function properly only when their members are welded together by a shared commitment to a larger cause.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Seattle’s sweetly sublimated punk realm that somehow blends libertarianism and communitarianism.
—Matt Thompson, SPIN, 18 Oct. 2024
And sources told the paper that his main political philosophy is essentially free market, anti-regulation libertarianism.
—Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2024
Unlike libertarianism, which predated Rand and already had an American following, Objectivism, as Rand named her philosophy, attracted a core group of mostly first-generation American and Canadian Jews who were in their teens and early 20s during the Eisenhower years.
—Marco Roth, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
The Mises Caucus is a more hardline, edgy and sometimes inflammatory take on libertarianism that is more compatible with the Republican Party under Trump — which is partly why the former president spoke at the party’s convention this year.
—Stephen Fowler, NPR, 21 June 2024
Only after Reagan’s term did Republican trade policies turn more toward economic libertarianism—which means there is space to revive certain protective policies without rejecting free trade entirely.
—Gerald F. Seib, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2024
Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
His libertarianism, however, is qualified by the belief that societies can function properly only when their members are welded together by a shared commitment to a larger cause.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Seattle’s sweetly sublimated punk realm that somehow blends libertarianism and communitarianism.
—Matt Thompson, SPIN, 18 Oct. 2024
And sources told the paper that his main political philosophy is essentially free market, anti-regulation libertarianism.
—Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2024
Unlike libertarianism, which predated Rand and already had an American following, Objectivism, as Rand named her philosophy, attracted a core group of mostly first-generation American and Canadian Jews who were in their teens and early 20s during the Eisenhower years.
—Marco Roth, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
The Mises Caucus is a more hardline, edgy and sometimes inflammatory take on libertarianism that is more compatible with the Republican Party under Trump — which is partly why the former president spoke at the party’s convention this year.
—Stephen Fowler, NPR, 21 June 2024
Only after Reagan’s term did Republican trade policies turn more toward economic libertarianism—which means there is space to revive certain protective policies without rejecting free trade entirely.
—Gerald F. Seib, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for libertarianism
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Their psychic life is not pried with pity or prurience; their paralysis or tragic humility is not mined for metaphor.Seyward Darby, Longreads, 16 July 2024
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These actors’ television fame adds a whisper of remembered prurience here, a flavor of kitsch there.Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
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Harper is under siege by multiple manifestations of toxic masculinity—lechery, neediness, condescension, even Geoffrey’s uncomfortable banter.David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 May 2022
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Perrotta is up to his old tricks, painting a man’s thoughtless lechery in touching tones, inviting misreading.Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
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Where his first two books take Bulgaria as backdrop and a certain kind of soft-skinned, deeply feeling libertinism as narrative vehicle, Small Rain functions as a midlife sequel, one that is quietly, unabashedly romantic.Sarah Thankam Mathews, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
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To some, the campus became the place where the children of American postwar affluence failed to live up to all that had been invested in them, opting instead for campus protest, radical politics, and libertinism.Adrian Daub / Made by History, TIME, 3 Sep. 2024
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“Libertarianism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/libertarianism. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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