11 Comments, 11 Threads

1. 1. Ed Driscoll.com

   Fusionism In The Blogosphere

   Back in August, Kenneth Silber explained the definition and origin of the word “Fusionism” in Tech Central Station:Like the man who’s surprised to learn he’s been speaking prose all his life, the fusionist is a political category whose members may…

   January 19, 2005 - 2:21 am   Link to this Comment

   

   
2. 2. JohnL

   Ugh. Pejman considers http://www.lewrockwell.com to be “libertarian.”

   January 19, 2005 - 7:59 am   Link to this Comment

   

   
3. 3. Just One Bite

   Wheel of chance will turn my way

   From an interesting 2002 article on Tech Central Station, linked on Vodkapundit this morning: One of the palliative effects of blogging and the Blogosphere in general, however, is that it has fomented greater (and more civil) interaction among conserva…

   January 19, 2005 - 8:04 am   Link to this Comment

   

   
4. 4. Just One Bite

   Wheel of chance will turn my way

   From an interesting 2002 article on Tech Central Station, linked on Vodkapundit this morning: One of the palliative effects of blogging and the Blogosphere in general, however, is that it has fomented greater (and more civil) interaction among conserva…

   January 19, 2005 - 8:05 am   Link to this Comment

   

   
5. 5. Crusader

   Yeah, a decent read, but he was stretching his credibility by a long shot with the gay rights point. That is just going to be a dividing point no matter how you try to make it sound nice. Just don

   January 19, 2005 - 8:19 am   Link to this Comment

   

   
6. 6. KipEsquire

   I was underwhelmed by the piece. Far more important I think are the (endless?) debates between (1) small-l libertarians and Large-L Libertarians, and (2) neocons and paleocons. I think the distinctions between “libertarians” generally and “conservatives” generally are pretty easily understood by those who bother to look for them.

   P.S. Ditto on the unfortunate inclusion of lewrockwell.com.

   January 19, 2005 - 8:41 am   Link to this Comment

   

   
7. 7. jmaster

   Kip:

   I agree with your first two points, but I

   January 19, 2005 - 9:46 am   Link to this Comment

   

   
8. 8. JohnL

   jmaster,

   Timothy Sandefur most recently posted quite a bit on the philosophical differences between libertarians and conservatives. Start here and scroll back for at least a week. It is a recurring theme of his, so you might want to dig through his archives, too.

   January 19, 2005 - 10:37 am   Link to this Comment

   

   
9. 9. Sisyphus

   The Blogosphere Political Compass Project

   January 19, 2005 - 4:16 pm   Link to this Comment

   

   
10. 10. Pejman Yousefzadeh

    I am not saying that Lew Rockwell is the prototypical libertarian. Clearly not. But they were a site that fired back against Jonah Goldberg whenever he criticized libertarians.

    Also, this article is about 2 years old. ‘Bout time Stephen linked to it!

    January 19, 2005 - 4:37 pm   Link to this Comment

    

    
11. 11. rosignol

    The political compass project is um, rather british in it’s concerns, and the questions are not particularly free of bias. Some questions refer to cultural artifacts peculiar to the UK, I had no idea what they meant.

    January 20, 2005 - 4:43 pm   Link to this Comment