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The Strange Claim That Libertarianism Is Dead

by | Sep 24, 2026

Modern Age editor Daniel McCarthy has written a thought-provoking article in the Spectator claiming that libertarianism is dead. Have the corporatists and socialists really won the intellectual debate? We sift through the strawmen, hyperbole, and accurate observations to take a hard look at McCarthy’s claims.

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  • Daniel McAdams

    Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity and co-Producer/co-Host, Ron Paul Liberty Report. Daniel served as the foreign affairs, civil liberties, and defense/intel policy advisor to U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, MD (R-Texas) from 2001 until Dr. Paul’s retirement at the end of 2012. From 1993-1999 he worked as a journalist based in Budapest, Hungary, and traveled through the former communist bloc as a human rights monitor and election observer.

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