Leave it to libertarians to reduce every single issue on earth, be it political, economical or social, to absolutism.
Leave it to them to turn an innocuous and practical initiative like Chancellor Biddy Martinâ??s Madison Initiative for Undergraduates into a new battlefront between those who value freedom and self-reliance and those pesky Marxists who just love leeching off the rich. One needs to look no further than the way those who oppose the Madison Initiative are going about framing the discussion as proof of these tendencies. Yet, is it true that this initiative is just another case of â??wealth redistributionâ??