Reason

FROM THE ARCHIVES

20 YEARS AGO

July 2001

“To say ‘neoliberal’ is the same as saying ‘semiliberal’ or ‘pseudoliberal.’ It is pure nonsense. One is either in favor of liberty or against it, but one cannot be semi-in-favor or pseudo-infavor of liberty, just as one cannot be ‘semipregnant,’ ‘semiliving,’ or ‘semidead.’ The term has not been invented to express a conceptual reality, but rather, as a corrosive weapon of derision. It has been designed to devalue semantically the

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