NH Liberty Forum Report

I’ve recently returned from the New Hampshire Liberty Forum, held February 23-26 in Nashua, NH and sponsored by the Free State Project. The two evening keynote speakers were libertarian free-range farmer Joel Salatin and investor and recent U.S. Senate candidate Peter Schiff. In addition, session speakers included school-choice economist Angela Dills, former Libertarian Pennsylvania gubernatorial [...]

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Yahoo! News on the FSP

A wry article that captures a good bit of the flavor of an everyday Free Staters’ get-together in New Hampshire.

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“A decade ago, libertarian activists… hatched a crazy plan to take over New Hampshire… It’s kind of working.”

That’s from the lede of a new story in Mother Jones about the Free State Project, entitled “City on a Quill.” Mother Jones is definitely coming from the left, but the story is meritoriously free of those lazy, paranoid arguments ad Kochum that we’ve seen about Free Staters from The Nation (no, I’m not going [...]

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Free State Project

As many of our readers may know, fellow Pilei Jason Sorens was the founder of the Free State Project (if you don’t know much about it, here is the project’s website).  Thus it was with some interest that I opened David Weigel’s piece at Slate on the movement that Jason founded. Unfortunately, all I got was a rather [...]

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National Journal on the FSP and NH Primary

I was recently interviewed for a National Journal story, which has just come out, on how the Free State Project may influence the 2012 presidential primary. Pileus also gets a link!

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Libertarianism’s Limits: Political or Theoretical?

At AmCon, James Banks gives his take on the Christopher Beam piece in New York magazine on libertarianism. Like many other critics of the piece, Banks believes Beam focuses too much on the fringes of the movement. However, Banks still argues that libertarianism has inherent “limits”: [I]t is still difficult to imagine a robust libertarian [...]

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Statistical Estimates of the Future Impact of the Free State Project

Given my estimate of the effect of the size of the liberty constituency on freedom, what would be expected to happen to freedom in New Hampshire if the liberty constituency in that state grew?

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The State of the Free State

PorcFest 2010: thoughts on Gary Johnson and the state of play in New Hampshire.

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Libertarians: How Not to Make Friends and Influence People

Topless protests on school bus routes. I really have no idea what point these people thought they were making, especially since female toplessness is not illegal in Keene, New Hampshire. Full, but begrudging disclosure: These activities are mostly organized by people with ties to the Free State Project, the movement I founded. The libertine, anarchist, [...]

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