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Episode 98: The Libertarian Moment? (with Katherine Mangu-Ward)

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Channel: Libertarianism.org · 2015 · News & Politics

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Katherine Mangu-Ward joins us to talk about the “libertarian moment” and the past and future of libertarianism more broadly.

Is this a libertarian moment? Was there a libertarian moment? Can we expect there to be a libertarian moment? Yes to all three, says Reason managing editor Katherine Mangu-Ward. We also discuss whether younger people are becoming more libertarian, why libertarianism always seems to be associated with the political right, and whether libertarianism depends on technological growth.

Show Notes and Further Reading

This New York Times column by Robert Draper that first called attention to the “libertarian moment.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/has-the-libertarian-moment-finally-arrived.html?_r=0

This Hit & Run blog post by Reason.com editor Nick Gillespie, “The Libertarian Moment is Everywhere Around Us (Increasing Social Tolerance Edition)”.
http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/22/the-libertarian-moment-is-everywhere-aro

Jonathan Haidt’s 2013 book on moral psychology in politics that shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have different intuitions on what is right and wrong, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion.
http://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/0307455777/

Neal Stephenson’s 1992 science-fiction novel predicting the rise of an internet much like the one we know today, Snow Crash.
http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0553380958/

Mangu-Ward’s cover article for the November 2012 issue of Reason, “Your Vote Doesn’t Count”.
http://reason.com/archives/2012/10/03/your-vote-doesnt-count

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