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In episode 2, Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg track the fracturing of the Libertarian movement, the culture wars, and which ideas deserve not to die.
In episode 2, Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg track the fracturing of the Libertarian movement, the culture wars, and which ideas deserve not to die.
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TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Episode preview
(12:54) Why did Libertarians lose?
(15:00) Free trade failure in the 2000s
(19:00) Libertarians jumping on the Trump train
(19:45) Evolution to state-capacity libertarian
(22:00) Culture wars vs. getting the economics right
(27:30) Effect of money on politics
(29:00) Urban fragmentation: San Francisco and New York
(30:30) Hot take: Gavin Newsom underrated
(37:00) How the right soured on the free markets and became became statist
(39:00) Can a 'reset' work
(40:20) Which ideas deserve not to die?
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LINKS MENTIONED:
Where Does Libertarianism Go From Here? https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/where-does-libertarianism-go-from
Tyler Cowen, State-Capacity Libertarianism https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/01/what-libertarianism-has-become-and-will-become-state-capacity-libertarianism.html
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