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CONVENTIONAL WISDOM.(hidden law)

From: Reason  |  Date: 2/1/2000  |  Author: Rauch, Jonathan

Rediscovering the social norms that stand between law and libertinism

Lately I have begun to understand how a Methodist must feel when everyone he meets calls him a Lutheran. People often describe me as a libertarian. All right, it's true that I often write in a skeptical vein about government. Yes, I have come to see a higher, Zen-like power in leaving things alone. I generally do subscribe to H.L. Mencken's dictum, "All persons who devote themselves to forcing virtue on their ...

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