While a troubling trend, the writer would come across with far more authority if the article was not a misguided , ignorant and poorly assembled smear at the term "libertarianism"

Way to take an important point, and completely shit the bed - as expected of the mouthpiece of The Establishment, which is the NYT primary role these days.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)