Liberalism is the most successful system ever | David Boaz | The Reason Interview
Channel: ReasonTV
Date: 20/03/2024

How Vietnam, Watergate, and stagflation supercharged the libertarian movement.

https://reason.com/podcast/2024/03/20/david-boaz-libertarianism-is-the-intellectual-core-of-liberalism/

0:00- How is the libertarian movement doing?
4:10- The importance of the non-aggression principle
8:00- Cosmopolitanism and tolerance
11:11- Are libertarians self-interested?
13:48- Libertarians were ahead of everyone on gay rights
17:50- Was Barry Goldwater right?
27:10- The history of the Cato Institute
30:07- Is social security unstoppable?
40:53- How bad was the George W. Bush administration?
47:24- Was Trump libertarian?
49:57- What's the case against Biden?
53:58- Discipline through market forces
57:40- The nostalgia phenomenon
1:01:30- The future of liberalism
1:08:11- How do libertarians inspire the next generation?

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Few individuals have had a bigger impact on the libertarian movement than David Boaz, the longtime executive vice president of the Cato Institute. Boaz recently turned 70 and gave a keynote address at LibertyCon, the annual gathering of Students for Liberty, in Washington, D.C. Reason's Nick Gillespie caught up with Boaz to discuss the disarray in the libertarian movement, why he thinks the nonaggression principle and cosmopolitanism form the core of the movement, why libertarians can never seem to take wins when they get them, and whether there's anything to look forward to in a rematch of Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden.