A crucial difference between lite libertarians and the right kind is that to the former, the idea of liberty is propositional - a deracinated principle, unmoored from the realities of history, hierarchy, biology, tradition, culture, values. Conversely, the paleolibertarian grasps that ordered liberty has a civilizational dimension, stripped of which the libertarian non-aggression axiom, by which we all must live, cannot endure.
Ilana MercerFor too long, the U.S. has been operating upon the premise that American men and matรฉriel should be capable of reaching and controlling all corners of the world. This was a bullyโs universe.
Ilana MercerIslamic terrorism is the handiwork of people who've heeded, not hijacked, Islam. Or so says [Wafa] Sultan.
Ilana MercerGovernment jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload.
Ilana MercerRevive the value of seasoned, stoical masculinity in education. Men in authority are now a threatened minority. Again, and in defense of the pack that piled on Klein, Americaโs progressive schools are overrun by ineffectual females.
Ilana MercerBy the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.
Ilana Mercer