Editing Nolan Chart (section)

== Criticism ==
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[[Brian Patrick Mitchell]], who uses a different political taxonomy, cites these points of disagreement:<ref name="Mitchell2007">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hg0epWuFdRcC&q=Nolan&pg=PA7|title=Eight Ways to Run the Country: A New and Revealing Look at Left and Right|author=Brian Patrick Mitchell|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2007|isbn=978-0275993580|page=7}}</ref>
* The strict separation of social and economic policy that the chart is based on, is untenable in general. In migration policy, for example, both sociocultural and economic issues are at play.
* The view that the Right can be defined by its acceptance of state intervention into the domestic sphere (little 'personal freedom') and the Left by its rejection, is false. In the U.S., the Right generally opposed [[gun control]], while the Left argues for it.

Similar criticisms, but from a libertarian perspective, are leveled by [[Jacob Huebert]],<ref>{{Cite book|title=Libertarianism today|last=H.|first=Huebert, Jacob|date=2010|publisher=Praeger|isbn=978-0313377556|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|pages=22–24|oclc=655885097}}</ref> who adds that the separation of personal and economic liberty is untenable when one considers the rights to [[Prostitution|prostitute]] oneself and to [[Illegal drug trade|deal drugs]], both of which are libertarian causes: adopting either profession is a personal (moral) as well as an economic decision. Also, Huebert notes that it is unclear where in the Nolan chart libertarian opposition to war belongs.

The libertarian response to these criticisms is that the issues are presented in a specific frame of reference by the political factions consistent with the chart. Free immigration is typically viewed as a personal liberty issue, so it is favored by those on the political left.<ref name="The Atlantic - Immigration">{{cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/how-immigration-can-restrict-and-enhance-liberty/284192/|title=How Immigration Can Restrict and Enhance Liberty|author=Conor Friedersdorf |year=2014}}</ref> Drug legalization is framed as a personal rights issue, so it tends to be favored by the left.<ref name="The Atlantic - Drug Use">{{cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/the-war-on-drugs-should-it-be-your-right-to-use-narcotics/254317/|title=The War on Drugs: Should It Be Your Right to Use Narcotics?|author=Emily Dufton|year=2012}}</ref>
War is viewed as a destruction of both society<ref name="War and Society">{{cite news|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-problem-is-war_b_4003867|title=The Problem Is War|author=Madison West|year=2013}}</ref> and the economy.<ref name="War and Economics">{{cite news|url=https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/2180/economics/economic-impact-of-war/|title=Economic impact of war|author=Tejvan Pettinger|year=2019}}</ref>