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Recent Examples of libertarianism
What’s for sure is that the same legal ambiguity and anti-FDA libertarianism that helped kratom survive may also have created the conditions for a far stronger substance to flourish under its name.
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Mattha Busby,
Wired News,
15 June 2026
Read more from her on medical libertarianism, powerful podcast bros, folk pharmacology, and more.
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Theresa Gaffney,
STAT,
6 Apr. 2026
An early challenge to Rawlsian egalitarian liberalism was conservative libertarianism.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
20 Mar. 2026
And if that’s libertarianism, that part of it is correct.
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David Frum,
The Atlantic,
11 Mar. 2026
Manners’ combination of private sector achievement with his passionate support of libertarianism is a way to pivot to someone Manners holds in high regard, Sir Antony Fisher (1915-1988).
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John Tamny,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
Radical ideas that are today considered right-wing—white supremacism, violent antigovernment libertarianism, Christian extremism—have played starring roles in the American story since the very beginning.
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Aug. 2021
Mattha Busby,
Wired News,
15 June 2026
Read more from her on medical libertarianism, powerful podcast bros, folk pharmacology, and more.
—
Theresa Gaffney,
STAT,
6 Apr. 2026
An early challenge to Rawlsian egalitarian liberalism was conservative libertarianism.
—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
20 Mar. 2026
And if that’s libertarianism, that part of it is correct.
—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
11 Mar. 2026
Manners’ combination of private sector achievement with his passionate support of libertarianism is a way to pivot to someone Manners holds in high regard, Sir Antony Fisher (1915-1988).
—
John Tamny,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
Radical ideas that are today considered right-wing—white supremacism, violent antigovernment libertarianism, Christian extremism—have played starring roles in the American story since the very beginning.
—
Cynthia Miller-Idriss,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Aug. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for libertarianism
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Were the photographs made for prurience, to objectify the victims, or to blackmail the guilty?
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A far cry from Salò, or films dominated by prurience, this movie, and these three lovers, are having a torrid affair with art, politics, and society’s mores—their own little revolution amidst a real one.
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Mingus agreed to join him for moral support, but when Albee, whether through nonchalance or lechery, answered the door wearing nothing but a beltless bathrobe, Mingus balked and hightailed it out of there.
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Vandalism and lechery are among the milder affronts that occur on Winifred’s watch, and her narration, though sombre, sparkles.
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But in Anglo-American culture, periods of libertinism are followed by periods of restraint.
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Contrary to the crusty, chaotic libertinism of their shows, the band is disarmingly sweet and funny in person despite being duly crude.
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“Libertarianism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/libertarianism. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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