The Zone

The Zone

MacIntyre to McInnes

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Ben Sixsmith
Sep 01, 2026
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The logic of liberalism, as it is commonly understood, is that people should be free to do what they want as long as they are not directly harming other people. In more recent years, though, a lot of us have rediscovered thinkers who have talked about how broad the category of “harm” can be — about the subtle second order consequences of individual deci…

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