Hash, though I can't (and wouldn't dare presume) to speak for the classical
liberal think tanks, I would suspect that they don't "disassociate
themselves" from the LP because they aren't officially associated with it to
begin with. The nature, under tax laws, of a think tank are that they
cannot be partisan and keep their tax exempt status.

Yes, Heritage is basically Republican in its agreement with that party's
stances on issues, but they will scream if you start saying they are a
"Republican" organization. Cato would do the same thing if they were tied to
the LP.
-----Original Message-----
From: Free Capitalist [mailto:hash113@...]
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 12:24 AM
To: nathaniel_branden@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [nathaniel_branden] Re: Response to NB's Essay


Diana, thanks for information. Why is it that none of the classical
liberal/libertarian think tanks officially disassociate themselves
with LP? Or maybe I missed it, but I doubt it. I'd think that if
Objectivism formally disassociated itself from LP, that groups
with 'libertarian' in their title would be even more earnest in such
a task.

--- In nathaniel_branden@yahoogroups.com, Diana M Hsieh <diana@d...>
wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Free Capitalist wrote:
>
> > Frankly I always thought Cato was, if not exclusively an LP think
> > tank, at least not condemning of the Party.
>
> Cato abhors the LP. I know; I interned there for 6 months while in
> college. Ed Crane, in fact, founded Cato because he was
completely fed up
> with the LP. Generally speaking, the LP was (and surely is still)
> regarded an embarassment by Catons.
>
> I don't know about IHS in particular, but I know that they long
described
> themselves as "classical liberal" rather than libertarian in order
to
> distinguish themselves from the LP kooks. (When I was at
Cato, "market
> liberal" was the preferred term for similar reasons.) But now the
term
> "libertarian" isn't so associated with the LP, so I believe that
both
> organizations are using it.
>
> The fact that some major donors might support both the LP and
libertarian
> think tanks like Cato and IHS doesn't show that the think tanks
themselves
> support the LP. Your conjectures, as reasonable as they might be
in the
> absence of information, are inconsistent with the facts.
>
> diana.
>
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