Matt Zwolinski
@Mattzwolinski
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Philosopher, Bleeding Heart Libertarian. Co-author: The Individualists (Princeton, 2023) and Universal Basic Income: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford, 2023)
San Diego, CA
Joined September 2011
@Critical_Mises @bryan_caplan He’s a Nobel prize winner and former chief economist of the World Bank. So, not a nobody!
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This is the man Marco Rubio just hired to serve as his acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy.
White House appointee & former @RepMattGaetz staffer Darren Beattie is a white supremacist. While Nazis were storming the Capitol, Darren was telling Black people to “take a knee to MAGA” and “learn their proper place in society.”
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Well that’s super reassuring.
Leavitt: “If Elon Musk comes across a conflict of interest with the contracts and the funding that DOGE is overseeing, then Elon will excuse himself from those contracts.”
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RT @MattPolProf: True. But I'd also say a lot of right-libertarians endorse a watered down version of Nozickian property rights without fol…
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RT @StateofNation25: 📣 @nytimes coverage of the report! The U.S. Economy Is Racing Ahead. Almost Everything Else Is Falling Behind. https:/…
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@slatestarcodex The claim that you should care for family members more than strangers does not imply that you should not care about strangers at all, or that you should care about them so little that you would let them drown.
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Steve Bannon: “I’m a hard-core populist. I’m a hard-core nationalist. I’m not a conservative. I think conservatives are pussies.”
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@NeedlesslyWordy Alternatively, if you interpret his possibilities in a way such that one of them is compatible with the world we live in, then it’s no longer so obvious that it is morally unattractive, and the argument loses much of its force.
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@NeedlesslyWordy Rothbard’s argument is that there are only three *possibilities*. My response is that the actual world is not captured by any of those possibilities, and this shows there must be more than the three Rothbard claims b
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RT @MattPolProf: My long piece responding to the late Roger Scruton is out with @LiberalCurrents
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Human being are amazing.
Congratulations to the incredible Sophie Power for setting a new record by running 226 miles (365km) in 48 hours. Sophie is a former WRN Young Sportswoman of the year and has also set up a charity ‘She Races’ to champion female runners. What a woman!
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RT @nsarwark: Angela McArdle has been caught with her hand in the cookie jar embezzling funds from the Libertarian National Committee and u…
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