"Why do intellectuals support government solutions?" My friend Julian Sanchez asks that question in a new essay for the Cato Institute's Libertarianism.org. Intellectuals, he says, seem "disproportionately attracted to 'progressive' political views and government-centric means of remedying social ills." He suggests this is because "if the best solutions to social [...]
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