This morning, I almost fell off from my chair (fortunately, I was in my bed) when I read an op-ed (gated, in French) from Cécile Philippe, head of the libertarian French think tank Molinari Institute. Philippe – whose ideas I was familiar with back in the time I was reading libertarian fora, a long time ago so – is not the kind of person from whom you would expect that she regrets the time when the great Leviathan was curbing our liberties in the name of a fight against a deadly virus. But this is exactly what she is doing in this article (I translate):
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This morning, I almost fell off from my chair (fortunately, I was in my bed) when I read an op-ed (gated, in French) from Cécile Philippe, head of the libertarian French think tank Molinari Institute. Philippe – whose ideas I was familiar with back in the time I was reading libertarian fora, a long time ago so – is not the kind of person from whom you would expect that she regrets the time when the great Leviathan was curbing our liberties in the name of a fight against a deadly virus. But this is exactly what she is doing in this article (I translate):