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Ben Weiss,
Fortune,
9 June 2026
This means that two former libertarian AI advisers to the White House—Ball and Sacks—disagree about whether this order is a good thing.
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Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
3 June 2026
Arkansas Online,
17 Apr. 2026
One needn’t be a libertarian to recognize that reality.
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Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
12 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
Goodbye shorts, hello trousers Morpho’s fundraise comes as crypto, which started as a libertarian industry pioneered by hoodie-wearing developers, is increasingly walking in lockstep with traditional financial institutions.
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Ben Weiss,
Fortune,
9 June 2026
This means that two former libertarian AI advisers to the White House—Ball and Sacks—disagree about whether this order is a good thing.
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Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
3 June 2026
Noun
Civil libertarians say geofences amount to fishing expeditions that subject many innocent people to searches of private records merely because their cellphones happened to be in the vicinity of a crime.
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Arkansas Online,
17 Apr. 2026
One needn’t be a libertarian to recognize that reality.
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Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
12 Apr. 2026
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Sauer spoke of republican values at the founding.
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Despite absolute rulership always resting with the ayatollah, Iran has some functioning republican institutions, including presidential elections.
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The protagonist of A Love Story is a lover boy, a libertine, a gossip, a flirt.
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The libertines will begin the film in suits.
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The state’s Holocaust Education Bill, passed in 1994, requires every school district to teach the Holocaust with the explicit aim of building tolerance, nurturing democratic values, and confronting what indifference produces.
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All of the democratic socialist legislators, including then-Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, were smart enough to stay away, figuring this was not the moment to cheer Hamas, even for those committed to the Palestinian cause.
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Virginia may have established a representative body, the House of Burgesses, in 1619, but the mid-century Cavalier elite continued to accept the divine right of kings as the Stuart monarchs had propounded it.
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Boars were representative of Seth (or Set), a deity associated with chaos and violence.
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“Libertarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/libertarian. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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