[extropy-chat] Why I am No Longer a Libertarian Either...

[David Lubkin]

Mike Lorrey wrote:

>The only places you find republicans on faculties these days is in
>engineering departments. FIRE's website covers this issue quite well
>(and for a group founded by liberals, they are very fair and objective,
>primarily as they stick to one issue, free speech, religiously... they
>don't let their personal political opinions color how they judge
>university treatment of political or other speech depending on who is
>being gored.).

FIRE (www.thefire.org) is emphatically and pointedly *not* an organization 
founded by liberals. Or, more correctly, not *just* by liberals. Their 
board of directors and marquee supporters are equal-parts Big Name 
liberals, Big Name conservatives, and Big Name libertarians. Consider David 
Brudnoy, Alan Dershowitz, Nat Hentoff, Roy Innis, Ed Meese, Virginia 
Postrel, Christina Hoff Sommers, and Nadine Strossen.

Their unified and pan-ideological support of a true marketplace of ideas on 
campus and their high effectiveness in practice make them one of my 
favorite organizations to support and acclaim.


-- David Lubkin.