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Push back, or the real culture war, 21st-century style

May 6, 2009 - 6:41 am - by Roger Kimball
Self-hating Boomer
2009-05-06 09:51:44

Advocates of free enterprise must learn from the growing grass-roots protests, and make the moral case for freedom and entrepreneurship.

Walter Williams said essentiallythat several years ago, and I think he was quoting someone else. That’s the rock bottom line. If freedom isn’t righteous in its own right, it’s headed for the scrap heap of history.

For the left, freedom is a tool; every time they argue for freedom, it’s in a context that has something to do with sex. When it comes to what matters, freedom is disposable.

The Soviets could screw themselves silly. I guess that means that they were free people, since none of the other freedoms matter.