Principles and Heresies

A Political “Law of Parity”?

Libertarian conservatives have with justice concentrated their attention upon the cancer-like growth of the State, as its malignant cells invade the body of society ever more widely. But as our attention has been concentrated upon this primary danger, upon the massive destruction by the State of the independent functioning of individual persons in a free society, another phenomenon, the obverse of this and yet integrally connected with it, has been less remarked. Or, when it has been noticed, it has been seen in its several parts, as a series of separate and disconnected problems, not as a single phenomenon.

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Frank S. Meyer

Frank S. Meyer was a senior editor of National Review.

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A Political “Law of Parity”?

Libertarian conservatives have with justice concentrated their attention upon the cancer-like growth of the State, as its malignant cells invade the body of society ever more widely. But as our attention has been concentrated upon this primary danger, upon the massive destruction by the State of the independent functioning of individual persons in a free society, another phenomenon, the obverse of this and yet integrally connected with it, has been less remarked. Or, when it has been noticed, it has been seen in its several parts, as a series of separate and disconnected problems, not as a single phenomenon.