Freedom, America, and Robert Nozick
It has been 50 years since Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia was published. This is a good year for both libertarians and conservatives to re-read it.
It has been 50 years since Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia was published. This is a good year for both libertarians and conservatives to re-read it.
There are other domains of human life that I believe are best viewed as commons, as emergent, critical societal assets prone to careless destruction by unsustainable use, less tangible than pasture land, but in many ways, much more important in our daily lives.
If a new framework for freedom is to emerge in the West, it must be recognizable. The stories of anchored freedom must be told, and they must be disseminated with the same adamance in mass culture, whenever and wherever possible, as the Boomer myth of freedom.
The ideal of responsibility is based on the simple assumption that with maturity should come a certain readiness to accept the sufferings and burdens of life with dignity. This, if you like, is part of the backbone of Western Civilization.