Paul Meany

Editor of Intellectual History @libertarianism in the @CatoInstitute. Host of @PortraitsPod a podcast about libertarian history. Irish living in DC

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Libertarianism begins and ends with self-ownership. Today we remember what it costs to secure it.

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@BeatrizGietner @eni_iljazi This is a satire post from an Irish instagram account I think

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@danobrien20 That most people go to college means entrepreneurship isnt on their mind at all. Now the masters arms race pushes out potential ventures into an increasingly distant future.

Cost of living makes all of this inordinately worse.

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@karldeeter The person who coined the word entrepreneur was an Irish French emigrant. The floodgate of emigration has been a way to boot out Irish radicals from a mostly conservative culture. Entrepreneurship like political radicalism upsets traditional loyalties.

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@HotepDoobs James Forten, Thomas L. Jennings, Garrett Morgan, Madam C.J. Walker, the list is long.

Those who do not understand history will always remain children.

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@PAHoyeck Arrival 2016 and Wittgenstein
Kingdom of Heaven 2005 and Kant’s categorical imperative
Gattaca 1997 and Foucault’s biopolitics
Hunger 2008 for Henry David Thoreau’s civil disobedience
Hardcore 1979 for Andrea Dworkin
Office space 1999 and Graeber’s bullshit jobs

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The Declaration of Arbroath is a really good example of how the medieval world rarely fits the caricature of the tyrannical monarch. Most monarchs had limited central power and could be easily removed.

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@NatPurser @AlexNowrasteh Hawley does the best at hammering this home. But it was a long standing tradition that helped people frame complicated ideas.

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@NatPurser @AlexNowrasteh Enlightenment thinkers constantly reference classical texts. It was the shared language of the time. Locke was a lifelong scholar of Cicero for example. Catos letters which was among the most owned in American libraries makes constant references to classical thinkers

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“If one minute’s freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it.” -Elizabeth Freeman

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@Logo_Daedalus https://t.co/XmlRdCqZQY

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Liberalism is not exclusively Western.

One of its Muslim advocates was the great Ottoman intellectual Namık Kemal, whose passion for “hürriyet,” or liberty, led to constitutionalism.

I talked about his life and legacy with @PaulMeany2 at @libertarianism:
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@scottsantens @AmerigoChattin @theUBIguy @justinamash @libertarianism Paine's ideas resemble later thinkers like Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek who supported forms of basic income.

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NEW BOOK RELEASE!

Written by @TimothySandefur, Freedom's Furies tells the story of Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand. Three women who kept liberty alive in a dark time.

You can read it online for free with the link below!

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LIVE TODAY AT 3PM ET: “Black Liberation through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America,” with @LibertyEthics, @MarcusWitcher, @AmeshiaCross and @PaulMeany2.

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