Dec 27, 2010: Harvard Political Review: Thin Skin at Reason Magazine
Christopher Beam has a long feature in New York magazine on “The Trouble with Liberty,” that is, with libertarianism. I liked the piece, but then, I guess I’m disposed to like such pieces. Radley Balko, a senior editor at the libertarian Reason magazine, is not. He’s upset that Beam wasn’t fair and balanced. Balko says Beam could have “provided sound critiques of libertarianism by asking prominent people on the right and left to explain the faults of libertarian approaches to various issues,” but he didn’t need to “step in and call the fight himself.”
Christopher Beam has a long feature in New York magazine on “The Trouble with Liberty,” that is, with libertarianism. I liked the piece, but then, I guess I’m disposed to like such pieces. Radley Balko, a senior editor at the libertarian Reason magazine, is not. He’s upset that Beam wasn’t fair and balanced. Balko says Beam could have “provided sound critiques of libertarianism by asking prominent people on the right and left to explain the faults of libertarian approaches to various issues,” but he didn’t need to “step in and call the fight himself.”
