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I think you may be hanging to tightly to the semantics.

Libertarianism is not being used (in this article or in general discussion) in its moral theory/political theory sense. They are referring to the derived economic policy theories.

Hype removed, it might read: 'End of government intervention as a taboo.'

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No, I don't think so. I am an economist; I understand the issue. I'm saying that if you start with a government intervention, there's not anything unlibertarian about advocating a further intervention to make things less bad, provided that you oppose the initial intervention.

For instance, libertarians oppose government-created monopolies. But given a government-created monopoly, it's not unlibertarian to support regulating it. The optimal libertarian policy is obviously abolishing said monopoly. The second-best one is regulating it. The third-best is letting it abuse its power.

I wasn't implying tat you don't understand the issue. Just that I think the article is implying something more shallow then what you seem to have responded to.

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