tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post4300314288204846326..comments2024-03-06T13:50:29.718+05:30Comments on E's flat, ah's flat too: The company he keepsRahul Siddharthanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809667965184094636noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-43027429671884040372008-01-21T20:10:00.000+05:302008-01-21T20:10:00.000+05:30anon - sorry, I had a confused memory of their sta...anon - sorry, I had a confused memory of their stand on the Iraq war. Perhaps I was thinking of the AEI. The other thing the Cato crowd have in common with neocons is their stand on global warming, but I suppose they could have different reasons for denying the phenomenon (and of course the Lew Rockwell crowd agree on that).Rahul Siddharthanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04809667965184094636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-63022282820704582412008-01-21T20:04:00.000+05:302008-01-21T20:04:00.000+05:30I am curious...Rahul, which of their stances makes...I am curious...Rahul, which of their stances makes you think the Cato institute is more neocon than libertarian?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-47024068607404324582008-01-21T00:07:00.000+05:302008-01-21T00:07:00.000+05:30The Cato institute always seemed more neocon than ...The Cato institute always seemed more neocon than libertarian to me. The Mises Institute stuff looks much more, I won't say reasonable, but honest on the surface. But probe a little deeper, and it seems it's quite crackpotted and not all that honest either.<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure where Ron Paul fits into all this. From what I've been reading recently, the palaeo/new split occurred after his 1988 Presidential run as a Libertarian candidate. And apparently this time he says if he does a third party run, it will not be as a libertarian but as an independent, because lots of democrats support him.Rahul Siddharthanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04809667965184094636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-73549712576827019802008-01-19T22:54:00.000+05:302008-01-19T22:54:00.000+05:30This LATimes op-ed has some interesting background...<A HREF="http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2008/01/paul-vault-open.html" REL="nofollow">This LATimes op-ed</A> has some interesting background info on the split that created paleo (Mises Institute) and cosmopolitan (Cato) versions of libertarianism. Paleo, apparently, acquired a whole bunch of unholy fellow travelers.<BR/><BR/>Is Cato all that better? I'm not sure; in the name of debate, they provide a forum for folks like Charles Murray.Abihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06790560045313883673noreply@blogger.com