David Boaz on The Libertarian Mind

Silicon Valley Lawyers Chapter

Speaker:

• David Boaz, Executive Vice President, The Cato Institute, author of The Libertarian Mind:  A Manifesto on Freedom

Moderator: 

• Chris Pareja, CEO of Flyplist

Speaker: 

• David Boaz, Executive Vice President, The Cato Institute, author of The Libertarian Mind:  A Manifesto on Freedom 

Moderator: 

• Chris Pareja, CEO of Flyplist

About the Book:  

A revised, updated, and retitled edition of Boaz's classic book Libertarianism:  A Primer, which was praised as uniting "history, philosophy, economics and law - spiced with just the right anecdotes - to bring alive a vital tradition of political thought that deserves to be honored today" (Richard A. Epstein, University of Chicago).  

Libertarianism - the philosophy of personal and economic freedom - has deep roots in Western civilization and American history, and is growing stronger.  Two long wars, chronic deficits, the financial crisis, the costly drug war, the campaigns of Ron and Ran Paul, and the revelations about NSA abuses have pushed millions more Americans in a libertarian direction.

The Libertarian Mind has new, incisive chapters on core libertarian ideans such as natural rights, individualism, civil society, and free-market economics, along with an excellent intellectual history of the ideas of liberty.  New in this updated edition are discussions of the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama; the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements; and infringements on American civil liberties in cases ranging from massive surveillance of Americans' phones and emails to crusades to outlaw large soft drinks.  The Libertarian Mind is the ultimate resource for the currently burgeoning libertarian movement.

About the Author:

David Boaz is the executive vice president of the Cato Institute and has played a key role in the development of the Cato Institute and the libertarian movement.  He is a provocative commentator and leading authority on domestic issues such as education choice, drug legalization, government growth, and the rise of libertariamism.  He is the former editor of New Guard magazine and was executive director of the Council for a Competitive Economy prior to joining Cato in 1981.  His earlier edition of The Libertarian Mind was described by the Los Angeles Times as "a well-researched manifesto of libertarian ideas."  His other books include The Politics of Freedom and the Cato Handbook for Policymakers.  

His articles have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, National Review, and Slate, and he wrote the entry on libertarianism for the Encyclopedia Britannica.  He is a frequent guest on national television and radio shows and has appeared on ABC's Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, CNN's Crossfire, NPR's Talk of the Nation and All Things Considered, The McLaughlin Group, Stossel, The Independents, Fox News Channel, BBC, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and others.  

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