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The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post Are Standing for “Freedom” and “Free Markets”?

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If individual liberty helps us flourish, then why should government regulate our use of drugs or cryptography or weapons, or take from some to benefit others, or make us pay to indoctrinate our children in public schools?
– Brian Doherty, “What Is the American Libertarian Movement?” [2025]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
February 28, 2025
The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post Are Standing for “Freedom” and “Free Markets”?
In an editorial this week, the conservative Wall Street Journal chided Jeff Bezos, the owner of the liberal Washington Post, for Bezos’s announcement that henceforth the Post would be standing for “personal liberties and free markets.” The Journal pointed out that Bezos’s phraseology is remarkably similar to that employed by the Journal, which is “free markets and free people.” The Journal …
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