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theory of minarchy. Thus he contends, in his chapter dealing with
public policy case studies, that government has no role to play
in regulating marriage, in providing education, or in controlling
immigration. Some government regulation of these matters,
however, has been characteristic of every real free society that has
existed. As far as we can know, such regulation may be necessary
to sustaining the culture that permitted free societies to emerge
in the first place. Nevertheless, Wenzel brushes these institutions
aside as incompatible with a theory that he somehow finds more
real and more valuable than the actual blessings of the existing
civilization of which he is fortunate to be a member.
I hasten to add that this line of criticism is not intended to suggest that libertarianism, whether Wenzel's or any other version,
has nothing positive to contribute to our thinking about political
life. On the contrary, the libertarian disposition-its skepticism
about government's ability to solve social problems, its warning that invocations of the common good are sometimes cover
for selfish, rent-seeking behaviors-is necessary to any realistic
approach to politics. But reasonable libertarian warnings about
the dangers of government power should not be transformed
into dogmatic libertarian claims about the proper functions of
government. This is why Schlueter is wise to treat libertarianism
as one strand of conservatism and not as its theoretical basis. We
would be wise to follow him in this conclusion.
Carson Holloway is a visiting scholar in the B. Kenneth Simon Center for
Principles and Politics at the Heritage Foundation and a professor of political
science at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

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