{"id":343,"date":"2025-01-13T11:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T11:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/legutko-on-libertarianism\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T11:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T11:50:06","slug":"legutko-on-libertarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/legutko-on-libertarianism\/","title":{"rendered":"Legutko on Libertarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">I have some bones to pick with Legutko, but this is good:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">[Libertarianism] crumbles because it attempts to square the circle. Two loyalties &#8212; one particular to one&#39;s own community, the other to an infinitely open system &#8212; cannot be reconciled.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">\u2015&#0160;<span class=\"authorOrTitle\">Ryszard Legutko,&#0160;<\/span><span id=\"quote_book_link_54884607\"><a class=\"authorOrTitle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/work\/quotes\/85645716\">The Cunning of Freedom: Saving the Self in an Age of False Idols<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#0160;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have some bones to pick with Legutko, but this is good: [Libertarianism] crumbles because it attempts to square the circle. Two loyalties &#8212; one particular to one&#39;s own community, the other to an infinitely open system &#8212; cannot be reconciled. &#0160; \u2015&#0160;Ryszard Legutko,&#0160;The Cunning of Freedom: Saving the Self in an Age of False &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/legutko-on-libertarianism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Legutko on Libertarianism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}