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Ask a Libertarian

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

To promote their new book The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong With America, my former colleagues Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch took a bunch of questions yesterday from Facebook and Twitter users, then fired off a series of rapid-fire video responses, some serious, some fun.

Check out the full series here.

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8 Responses to “Ask a Libertarian”

  1. #1 |  Yizmo Gizmo |  June 16th, 2011 at 11:19 am

    I don’t get how a couple of kooky librarians are gonna fix America.
    Sorry, I just don’t …

  2. #2 |  Windy |  June 16th, 2011 at 12:30 pm

    Yismo, maybe if you read the book??

  3. #3 |  ClubMedSux |  June 16th, 2011 at 2:28 pm

    The abortion video kicked off a pretty interesting comment thread over at the Hit & Run blog. As irreverent as comment threads can get over there (well, I say irreverent; my wife would use harsher terms), the back-and-forth was all substantive in nature rather than the usual rapid devolution into ad hominem attacks that you tend to get in on-line discussions.

  4. #4 |  pegr |  June 16th, 2011 at 3:41 pm

    #3:

    Did not! You suck!

    ;)

  5. #5 |  Jeff |  June 16th, 2011 at 5:20 pm

    Gizmo,

    Do you expect that Democrats or Republicans are likely to fix things, instead? Who was responsible for creating the mess that is the USG in the first place? A long, inglorious, dishonorable list of people self-identifying as Democrats and Republicans, yes?

  6. #6 |  Chris Rhodes |  June 16th, 2011 at 6:28 pm

    Gizmo said “librarian”, rather than “libertarian”. Makes me think he was making some kind of joke that just fell flat.

  7. #7 |  Leon Wolfeson |  June 16th, 2011 at 10:48 pm

    @2 – Sure, and everyone and their brother sells a book promising the earth. Nope, I’m not throwing money at ANY of em.

  8. #8 |  Nick T. |  June 17th, 2011 at 10:59 am

    I like Gillespie fine, but his answer on copyrights is just awful. The idea that napster – a service used mainly by college kids and teens – didn’t destroy the music industry doesn’t prove anything. Without copyrights we’d still have itunes only when 1 million peeps download a Katy Perry song, apple owes Mrs. Russel Brand jack squat! And then perhaps KP doesn’t spend time making another album. And I don’t want to live in a world where that wonderful lady never made the song Firework.
    We libertarians need to see that the IP field is very often the most merit-based, free-market microcosm going. Producse a song/movie/tv show/book people love and buy and you will get paid proportionally. There is plenty of tweaking to be done and we currently protect too much, but hinting at no IP is just dumb.

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