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Political views

John McWhorter has called Hurston a conservative, stating that she is "America's favorite black conservative ". David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito have argued that she can be characterized as a libertarian, comparing her to Rose Wilder Lane and Isabel Paterson, two female libertarian novelists who were her contemporaries and are known as the "founding mothers" of American libertarianism. Russell A. Berman of the Hoover Institution described her as a " heterodox and staunchly libertarian thinker". The libertarian magazine Reason praised her, claiming: "What Hurston wanted, in both life and literature, was for everyone, of every race, for better or worse, to be viewed as an individual first."