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Entry: Who Is Matt Welch? Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/who_is_matt_welch#22289 Post contents: I visit both Reason and LRC regularly. While I do think that LRC's portrayals of Reason as Neo-con are quite exaggerated, I have noticed a change in the libertarian nature of Reason. (I say this as someone who used to describe himself as a "Reason magazine libertarian".) I think it best to point out where Welch and other Reason writers might contradict the spirit of libertarian thinking, but the name calling and mudslinging add nothing to the discussion and, in my opinion, make me question the credibility of the critics. Likewise, while I think the writings in Ron Paul's newsletters deserve consideration as well as some of his policy stances, Reason's initial overreaction to the TNR's hit piece was not what I had come to expect over the years from Reason's writers. And Justin, while your writing is wonderful, as always, let's not gloss over how awfully wrong Pat Buchanan is in so many ways. I would not want anyone to think that PB is *almost* a libertarian. Sent at: 2008 05 16