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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: The Chaotic Trump-RFK Libertarian Convention
Description: https://youtu.be/LJ20jmhEE7s
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the Libertarian Party’s (LP) convention, especially the speeches by Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and what it reveals about the nature of the libertarian movement.
Among the topics covered:
Why chaos in the Libertarian Party is a result of disunity about what liberty even is;
Why the one point of unity in the LP is their stance against Israel’s war in Gaza;
How the libertarian movement’s lack of a coherent positive ideology led to the LP...