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Episode 171: Liberaltarianism and Trump (with Brink Lindsey)

1,179 views · Published 27 January 2017 · 48:21 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: Libertarianism.org · 2017 · News & Politics

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Brink Lindsey joins us this week to talk about his idea for an alliance between liberals and libertarians in the age of Trump-style conservative populism.

Where did the idea for liberaltarianism come from? How will Donald Trump’s presidency affect libertarians’ relationship with liberals and progressives?

Show Notes and Further Reading

Here’s Brink Lindsey’s Vox article, “Liberals and libertarians should unite to block Trump’s extremism.”
http://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/1/17/14287694/liberaltarianism-liberalism-libertarianism-resist-trump-markets-growth

See also this article by Lindsey that appeared in the New Republic in 2006 that first coined the term “liberaltarian.”
https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/liberaltarians

Here’s our previous Free Thoughts episode with Lindsey on income inequality.
https://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts-podcast/is-income-inequality-problem

Lindsey mentions this book, The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth (2006), by Benjamin M. Friedman.
https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Consequences-Economic-Growth/dp/1400095719/

Here is Lindsey’s 2015 study, “Low-Hanging Fruit Guarded by Dragons: Reforming Regressive Regulation to Boost U.S. Economic Growth.”
https://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/low-hanging-fruit-guarded-dragons-reforming-regressive-regulation-boost-us

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