Editor of Intellectual History @libertarianism in the @CatoInstitute. Host of @PortraitsPod a podcast about libertarian history. Irish living in DC
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The Declaration of Arbroath is a really good example of how the medieval world rarely fits the caricature of the tyrannical monarch. Most monarchs had limited central power and could be easily removed.
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“If one minute’s freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it.” -Elizabeth Freeman
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Paul Meany retweeted
30 Aug 2024
Liberalism is not exclusively Western.
One of its Muslim advocates was the great Ottoman intellectual Namık Kemal, whose passion for “hürriyet,” or liberty, led to constitutionalism.
I talked about his life and legacy with @PaulMeany2 at @libertarianism:
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Paul Meany retweeted
1 Nov 2022
NEW BOOK RELEASE!
Written by @TimothySandefur, Freedom's Furies tells the story of Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand. Three women who kept liberty alive in a dark time.
You can read it online for free with the link below!
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Paul Meany retweeted
16 Jun 2022
LIVE TODAY AT 3PM ET: “Black Liberation through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America,” with @LibertyEthics, @MarcusWitcher, @AmeshiaCross and @PaulMeany2.
WATCH: bit.ly/3xwar5h
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Paul Meany retweeted
10 Feb 2022
Portraits of Liberty is back!
Our first episode in a while covers the life of Itagaki Taisuke, the samurai who became the leader of the Japanese Freedom and People's Rights Movement.
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Paul Meany retweeted
13 Nov 2021
Worried about tech monopolies? So was Forbes, 14 years ago today.
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Paul Meany retweeted
22 Oct 2021
Hundreds of years before modern economics, Ibn Khaldun already saw the relationship between taxation, economic growth, and incentives.
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Paul Meany retweeted
22 Oct 2021
"The budding American Revolutionaries considered Cicero an authoritative figure on the concepts of mixed governments and natural law, core concepts of the new American system of government." - @PaulMeany2
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Paul Meany retweeted
21 Oct 2021
My longread profile of the farm leader Sharad Joshi for Cato Institute's Libertarianism project.
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There is a free market tradition in the Muslim world, says @AkyolinEnglish, citing Prophet Mohammed creating a market in which he said the would be no taxes—but when people asked for price caps, he said no, prices could only be set by God. buff.ly/3G6PYXd
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Paul Meany retweeted
19 Oct 2021
"[John] Adams may have been America’s greatest admirer of Cicero, saying, 'As all the ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher united in the same character, his authority should have great weight.' " - @PaulMeany2 bit.ly/3FD7F09
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Paul Meany retweeted
13 Sep 2021
In the days of Stalin, the regime demanded the life, body, and soul of its citizens to fight for the vision of its leader.
But what Havel calls neo‐totalitarianism is more about promoting passivity, fatalism, and cynicism.
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Paul Meany retweeted
9 Sep 2021
Václav Havel, the dissident who became the first president of the Czech Republic, remains one of the greatest critics of totalitarianism.
Above all else, he was a man who put moral principles high above the humdrum of politics.
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Paul Meany retweeted
1 Sep 2021
If you consider yourself a libertarian, do you also consider yourself some form of feminist?
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I say egalitarian
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Paul Meany retweeted
27 Aug 2021
"Zera [Yacob, a 17th‐century Ethiopian philosopher] even surpasses his western counterparts with a firm commitment to anti‐racism and anti‐sexist attitudes."
- @PaulMeany2, host of @PortraitsPod
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Paul Meany retweeted
20 Aug 2021
An anti-tyranny hero libertarians ought to appreciate. If you can't hold those in power accountable then freedom is always in danger.
20 Aug 2021
"Cooke’s argument was a mixture of legal, political, and moral reasoning, all organized to make one point, that tyrants should not be able to live with impunity even after their reign has ended."
- @PaulMeany2
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