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Source link: http://blog.mises.org/4267/jonahs-tall-tale/

Jonah’s Tall Tale

October 27, 2005 by

A funhouse-mirror history of conservatism by Bill Buckley’s successor.

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NCA October 27, 2005 at 11:13 am

“This meant throwing friends and allies off the bus from time to time. The Randians, the Rothbardian anarchists and isolationists”

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Rothbard yank the chain and get off the bus?

Charles Hueter October 27, 2005 at 1:02 pm

Locke, Hobbes, Smith, Montesquieu, and the gang crafted this neat theory which said the state is formed to protect the interests of individuals. Our rights to life and property exist prior to the state’s right to exist. If the state violates the former it abdicates its claim to the latter.

Why is Hobbes included in that list? I thought his philosophy was nearly in complete opposition to natural rights?

Kenneth R. Gregg October 27, 2005 at 3:12 pm

What a strange Bizarro World (to borrow Raimondo’s term)! In a land of conservativism where Russell Kirk and Robert Nisbet do not make the editor’s cut, I guess anything can happen! I guess it would be inconvenient for him to mention that The Freeman was the progenitor of NR, that NR (and Buckley) used the same format that was in The Freeman, that NR borrowed the same writers, That if you put The Freeman and early National Review side by side, the only difference would be the title and the editor–SO MUCH FOR BUCKLEY’S ORIGINALITY!

The author of the article (how DARE he call himself a conservative!) says he’s “already sacrificed 50 bulls in Buckley’s honor.” This article makes it 51!

Just a thought.
Just Ken
kgregglv@cox.net
http://classicalliberalism.blogspot.com/

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