By Max Borders Truth carries within itself an element of coercion. —Hannah Arendt Identity politics has come to the freedom movement. But does it fit? Many newly minted libertarians have come out of America’s indoctrination factories feeling a mix of guilt and sanctimony. They’re still libertarians, but they admonish you to “check your privilege” and caution that you may unwittingly be perpetuating a culture of oppression. Libertarianism alone is not enough, they say. Our tradition, they urge, needs now to find common cause with various fronts in the movement for “social justice”—struggles against racism, sexism,
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