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[–] Justintoxicated 2 points (+2|-0)

Taylor, who invites readers to flee the “clean and well-lit prison of one idea.”

He is in the clean and well-lit prison of one idea: he is sharpened to one painful point. He is without healthy hesitation and healthy complexity. Now, as I explain in the introduction, I have determined in these early chapters to give not so much a diagram of a doctrine as some pictures of a point of view.

I can't necessarily argue with him here, it gets harder and harder to find the "moderate libertarian", too many focus on pushing all the hot button far left and/or far right issues to pick up the scraps of the big parties instead of running on issues like government accountability, balancing the budget, and protecting the constitution that the big 2 avoid.

[–] Butler_crosley 2 points (+2|-0)

I think Reason still does a decent job at staying fairly moderate, although the paleolibertarians tend to bitch louder when Reason presents something that more liberal.

[–] Justintoxicated 1 points (+1|-0)

Yeah, I like Reason a lot. Also occasionally they run Peter Bagge comics which is pretty cool.