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Is Ted Cruz’s Position on Abortion the Least Bad Since Barry Goldwater?

by Craig Biddle

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Craig Biddle
Apr 23, 2016
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Radical capitalists long for a U.S. presidential candidate who understands that rights are observation-based moral principles that apply only to individuated human beings in a social context—the very context in which historically the principle of rights was formed to apply. (Note that John Locke and the American Founders were not wondering: “How can we …

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