Corey Robin — [Robert] Nozick: Libertarians are “filled…with resentment at other freer ways of being”

Though it is often claimed that the left stands for equality while the right stands for freedom, this notion misstates the actual disagreement between right and left. Historically, the conservative has favored liberty for the higher orders and constraint for the lower orders. What the conservative sees and dislikes in equality, in other words, is not a threat to freedom but its extension. For in that extension, he sees a loss of his own freedom.

Like I said, the fundamental principle of conservatism is that some are better than others and deserve privilege, that is to say, that can "handle" greater freedom. The rest can't and need to be controlled.

Corey Robin
Nozick: Libertarians are “filled…with resentment at other freer ways of being”