The flawed libertarian response to the Charlie Hebdo attacks

Critics of American foreign policy don't do themselves any favors when they seem to shift blame away from the terrorists and toward the victims

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Libertarians can't seem to agree on what to make of the horrible terrorist attacks in France.

Ron Paul, the man most responsible for America's libertarian moment, says the deadly attacks against Charlie Hebdo's Paris office were "blowback" against an interventionist French and American foreign policy. Matt Welch, editor-in-chief of the most influential libertarian magazine Reason, says the newsroom slaughter was an obvious free speech issue.

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W. James Antle III

W. James Antle III is the politics editor of the Washington Examiner, the former editor of The American Conservative, and author of Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?.