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1. Libertarian utopias tend not to do well. One in New Hampshire was foiled by bears.

Thu Apr 10, 2025, 05:34 PM

Apr 2025

The book about the disaster that was the Free Town project in Grafton, NH, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear, hilariously describes how deregulation made everything but bears impossible. And Greenland has polar bears...

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-project-new-hampshire-libertarians-matthew-hongoltz-hetling

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