Libertarians in a Pandemic
It turns out they have some good ideas
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14 min readJan 22, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic had barely taken hold in the United States when principled libertarianism was reported to be among the early fatalities. “There are no libertarians in a pandemic,” Atlantic writer Derek Thompson quipped on Twitter on March 3.
Thompson likely intended it as an offhand comment, but the phrase took on a life…