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(Post #3 in my ongoing series on H.L.A Hart’s The Concept of Law, keyed to the ongoing MTSP Discussion on that book.) According to H.L.A. Hart, law is a union of primary and secondary rules. A rule is a codified directive to someone. Primary rules are primary because they give directives directly to, or impose…

Devastatingly on-target (ht: Fahmi Abboushi): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/12/bari-weiss-university-of-austin-free-speech LikeLike

In reply to mlyoung57. On (2): I don’t see anyone can be a genuine but merely flawed defender of liberalism if their position is that the Bill of Rights should be “amended” to facilitate the persecution of a single religious minority….

In reply to <a href=”https://radicalclassicalliberals.com/2021/07/15/a-trilemma-for-taxation-is-theft-libertarians/comment-page-1/#comment-192″>Fabian Wendt</a>. I don’t give a damn what those on the Left claim.

(1) We agree that AHA’s position on Muslim schools is wrong. And that it indicates a tendency to reach for coercive, illiberal measures, putatively to defend liberalism, way, way too easily, based on exaggerated threats to liberalism, society, ci…