Nearly all libertarians were once conservatives or progressives or independent statists of some stripe. But scarcely any conservatives, progressives, or independent statists were once libertarians. This asymmetry in the direction of ideological migration is interesting and perhaps informative.

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Robert Higgs was a contemporary American economic historian. Robert Higgs is an American economic historian and economist. He is known for research on the growth of the United States government, especially the ratchet effect, the idea that state power expands during wars and other crises and only partly recedes afterward, which he developed in Crisis and Leviathan (1987). Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Change — Embracing transformation, growth, and new beginnings
  • Freedom — The value of liberty, independence, and self-determination
  • Knowledge — The pursuit of learning, understanding, and intellectual growth
  • Politics — Governance, civic duty, and the structures of power

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