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By Jared Fuller at 6:47AM

Jul 22, 2010

America on Trial: Socrates, Obama, and Why They Are Opposites

*Disclaimer: If you’ve not read any of Plato’s works, this rebuttal may not make much of any sense. For further reference, see Plato’s Apology, Republic, and my personal favorite, Phaedo.

I have to ask Brandon Griefe who recently wrote an opinion piece entitled Obama: A pupil of Socrates a sincere question:

Are you serious?!

You cannot honestly believe you’re the only person to have ever trivialized the greatest philosopher known to modern society. You may, however, be the only person who has written an opinion piece on Obama and Socrates being similar.

Politics does make for strange bedfellows as the saying goes, but you are making a big stretch by putting Obama and Socrates even on the same page.

Let me be straight: Obama is the polar opposite of Socrates. While the failings of President Obama are many and clearly obvious to a lot of us, I will take particular contention with your opinions on Socrates and Plato in regards to government driven society.

Props to a YAL "Left-Libertarian"

Elliot, I really admire your latest article. The topic of "selective" conservative adherence to limited government irritates many libertarians, myself included. You've managed to address this issue in non-confrontational and civil, yet confident and direct, manner. This is especially appropriate considering that the audience of The Daily Caller is very different from that of YAL, C4L, or a typical libertarian website.

Anyway, I think everyone should become a fan of Elliot on Facebook because he is representing YAL and the libertarian message in a principled and eloquent manner.

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By Elliot Engstrom at 12:15PM

Mar 4, 2010

YAL on The Daily Caller!

Notice I don't just say me on the Daily Caller, as it was Jeff Frazee and Bonnie Kristian who saw the potential in responding to a neoconservative view on foreign policy, and Bonnie who gave me some editing suggestions while I wrote the article.

The point is that my most recent article has been picked up by the Daily Caller, and it would definitely do us some good if we could go over there, put some comments on the article, and really get a discussion going. We need to continually reinforce the fact that the libertarian youth is anything but a fringe group.

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