Murray Rothbard called egalitarianism a “revolt against nature,” and he believed that the egalitarianism inherent in the Fourteenth Amendment was socially harmful. Social engineering never turns out well, but that doesn‘t discourage progressives from engaging in it.
Wanjiru Njoya
Dr. Wanjiru Njoya is the Walter E. Williams Research Fellow for the Mises Institute. She is the author of Economic Freedom and Social Justice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), Redressing Historical Injustice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, with David Gordon) and “A Critique of Equality Legislation in Liberal Market Economies” (Journal of Libertarian Studies, 2021).