Responses to my Cato Unbound essay
Submitted by Patri Friedman on Fri, 2009-04-10 10:43
The trackback system on Cato Unbound seems to be imperfect, so here is a roundup of the blog reactions to my essay, for some light reading for y'all over the weekend :). I'll be making detailed replies on the Cato Unbound site starting on Tuesday.
Official responses on Cato Unbound:
- Brian Doherty: THE MANY PATHS TO LIBERTARIANISM
- Jason Sorens: LEVERAGING INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE.
- (Peter Thiel's response is not up yet)
Around The Blogosphere:
- Jason Kuznicki (Cato Unbound editor)
- Ilya Somin on the Volokh Conspiracy
- David Friedman: Ways of Changing The World
- Second-level Libertarianism here on DR by C. J. Trillian
- Brad Taylor: Democracies Never Compete and Technology vs. Ideology
- Bryan Caplan on EconLog
- Will Wilkinson
- Living on Mars:The problem with “folk activism”

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A few more...
There's also this from Brian Micklethwait, this from Tim Lee, and this from One Small Voice.
"My new perspective is that
"My new perspective is that the advocacy approach which many libertarian individuals, groups, and think tanks follow (including me sometimes, sadly) is an utter waste of time."
I wish I'd thought of that.