Always thoughtful and provocative, Ilana Mercer takes up the challenge of how Libertarianism does have foreign policy implications in her column, Return to Reason, on WorldNetDaily. (In the process she both ridicules antiwar Libertarians and the war in Iraq at the same time.)
Along the way, I learn that she had previously made the argument I advanced in my article, Constitutional Legitimacy in the Columbia Law Review and in Restoring the Lost Constitution;
From the fact that many libertarians believe … that the state has no legitimacy, [they] arrive at the position that anything the state does is illegitimate … Consider the murderer who, while fleeing the law, happens on a scene of a rape, [and] saves the woman … Is this good deed illegitimate because a murderer has performed it?
Jeffrey Utech at A Stranger in a Strange Land replies to The Vindicated Cynic’s critique of Libertarianism’s alleged immorality.
PS: I have no firm view of whether “Libertarianism” should be capitalized or not (it recently was by one of my editors and I did not object), but I certainly do not use the term to refer in any way to the Libertarian Party.
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