{"id":3437,"date":"2007-04-12T12:16:35","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T19:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/12\/satiric-libertarianism\/"},"modified":"2007-04-12T17:38:20","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T00:38:20","slug":"satiric-libertarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/12\/satiric-libertarianism\/","title":{"rendered":"Satiric Libertarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writing<\/a> on the Reason<\/em> magazine website, neocon Michael Young bemoans the lack of an American equivalent of Le Canard Enchaine<\/em>:<\/p>\n

“You have to wonder why a similar national publication doesn’t exist in the U.S. The popularity of The Onion<\/a>, or the fact that a magazine like Spy<\/a><\/em> managed to have considerable influence during the 1980s, suggest that Americans aren’t all that satire-resistant.”<\/p>\n

That’s strange: I thought Reason<\/em> was<\/em> a satirical magazine. After all, here is a “libertarian” periodical that publishes Young’s warmongering<\/a> screeds, takes a “neutral<\/a>” position on Iraq — and George W. Bush’s project of world conquest<\/strike>“liberation”<\/a> — while contenting itself with calls for the legalization of methamphetamine<\/a> and an unabashedly nerdy obsession<\/a> with “The Simpsons.” Mass murder is “debatable,” from this “libertarian” viewpoint: what isn’t debatable is putting heroin in school vending machines to let the free market work its magic. Now, that’s got <\/em>to be satire. But not in a good way …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writing on the Reason magazine website, neocon Michael Young bemoans the lack of an American equivalent of Le Canard Enchaine: “You have to wonder why a similar national publication doesn’t exist in the U.S. The popularity of The Onion, or the fact that a magazine like Spy managed to have considerable influence during the 1980s, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3437"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}