If you have free universal health care and free education supported by public school taxes, then you have more bargaining power with your bosses, but if everything is privatized, and ordinary Americans have to pay for everything through their wages,… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
“Libertarians are not the brightest lights in the candelabra, a fact that is evident from the alternatives they tend to offer to public prevention of private abuses. For example: if you don’t like working a hundred hours a week for… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
If you have free universal health care and free education supported by public school taxes, then you have more bargaining power with your bosses,… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S. Mill. Like… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Libertarianism and communism are equally crazy in opposite ways. Libertarians believe that it is possible to privatize everything without anarchy, while communists believe that… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
“The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
In the course of the twenty-first century what may be called the "capital wage" could be added to the labor wage and the social… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not. — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
“Libertarians are not the brightest lights in the candelabra, a fact that is evident from the alternatives they tend to offer to public prevention… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights, voting rights,… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist who is… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Where was the libertarian right during the great struggles for individual liberty in America in the last half-century? The libertarian movement has been conspicuously… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
