Huh? I didn’t know that any libertarians believed differently. In fact, they’re usually reviled for believing in open borders. You must hang with a … different … crowd of libertarians.

By this I mean, there is more to people than a rational economic agent, and having one’s material needs met. Material needs are an essential and many times primary concern but its not the only essential concern that people have, nor do I at least think it should be.

And yet it seems like these cultural calculations are either absent or papered over in these classical liberal dialogues. I suspect that this arises from classical liberalism’s philosophical commitment to separate irreconcilable religious questions from governing a pluralistic society. While necessary and sensible in many cases, that separation doesn’t always work. Pretending that these concerns are either illegitimate or non-existent doesn’t make them go away.