Individualists believe in liberty, not license.  And they believe in individual reason, not slogans, whether “libertarian” or otherwise. You can call yourself a “libertarian” all day long, but if you subscribe to dogma, you are no individualist. You belong with the herd. And that has always been my position. That’s the only libertarian card I ever carried. And I still carry it:

“Saving Private Enterprise” (LRC 2009):

“Liberty holding up the torch of reason to guide the state became liberty torching reason in abject service to the state.

This new liberty was not liberty at all but license. The regulations it effectively dismantled were mainly those that applied to businesses feeding off government contracts that were large enough to rule out the rule-makers. The rest of America was hog-tied with rules. Here, too, employing the slogans of the mob misleads: It turns out you can have too much regulation and too little — simultaneously.

So, while ordinary individuals and businesses are persecuted at every turn by ham-handed bureaucrats, a handful of corporations, especially those connected to the military, banking, finance, and energy, have become a rentier class, deriving their profits not from genuine free enterprise, from value added, innovation, foresight, and risk-taking, but from their special relationship to the government. Entrepreneurs have been displaced by over-paid technocrats, experts, and managers every bit as bureaucratic and wasteful as the state enterprises they claim to be stream-lining.”