Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“Conflicts within the Libertarian Party over the last few years between supporters and opponents of the Mises Caucus echo disagreements almost twenty years ago over Ron Paul, disagreements among libertarians set off by the discovery and publicizing of passages from his old newsletters. Both conflicts involve culture clash within the libertarian movement between different sorts of libertarians. Loosely speaking, the clash can be described as between people who see non-PC speech as a virtue and those who see it as a fault, between people who approve of offending liberal and progressive sensibilities (‘liberal’ in the modern American sense of the term) and those who share enough of those sensibilities to prefer not to offend them. The former group see the latter as wimps, the latter the former as boors.” (04/30/25)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/wimps-boors-and-philosophers-a7e