Let me go to you 1st in baltimore i dont i dont really think on this program we need to speak about the failings of socialism i think were all on the same page on that here my point in this program is here no i dont want to waste time on that because i its obvious ok historically it obvious on its face here but thomas what is the attraction then why do we have so many millennial zz and so many people attracted to this idea that so many of them have no historical knowledge of whatsoever go ahead thomas in baltimore. It was mostly because people like David Henderson and myself have been snuffed out of the academic world there are still 100 classical liberals in american academe but were outnumbered by hundreds of thousands of others and the young people are taught what economists call the nirvana fallacy they pose socialism as some sort of utopian ideal and compare that to the real world and of course the real world always comes up short when you compare it to utopia and thats basically
Government responsibility to restrict in regular the use of drugs, such as marijuana. This is about an hour and a half. Thank you all for joining us this evening for the annual libertarianism versus conservatism intern debate. I am the student Programs Coordinator here at the Cato Institute and im honored to introduce tonights event as interns go headtohead to debate is libertarianism or conservatism the superior political philosophy. Which political philosophy provides better answers to todays most important political questions . Of course, each of us have always had much to agree upon limited government, free markets, and individual liberty are pillars of the political philosophy we both value and uphold which have often led us , to the same policy preferences and conclusions. What each of us envision in a Free Society Without governmental and regulatory intrusion often does look quite different. Policy preferences surrounding foreign policy, immigration, direct legalization, sex wor
For those who dont know me, i am neil saul, Student Program ps coordinate here at the Cato Institute and an honor to introduce tonight, tonight is it at the heritage interns go headtohead with acute interns to debate is libertarianism or conservatism the superior political philosophy . With political flossie provides better answers to todays most important political questions . Of course each of us have always had much to agree upon, limited government, free markets and individual liberty are all pillars of the political flossie that we both value and appalled. Which of often led us to the same policy preferences and conclusions. Yet, what each of us invasion in a Free Society Without governmental and regulatory intrusion often does look quite different. Policy preferences surrounding foreign policy, immigration, sex work, emerging technology, marriage and families come just in a few, create cleavages that emerge from differences between our political philosophies. As weve seen in toda
How did you come across to drink your way across the world . I received a drunk text from the airplane to say lets combine our two favorite things which is drinking and traveling so then maybe write a book someday so that is the intention and then drink and we dont have to worry about the rules and we wrote a chapter thats not bad. Thats okay with venezuela and china and then we start traveling and to the former socialist countries it is a dad normal Academic Book so then we decided we word write a book published by regnery the cowriter from the Tech University we have been good friends for a long time and we both are in texas now so was easy to collaborate. Texas tech is a new position. What did you find in cuba quick. At first it was like any other book on the island like if youve been to jamaica until you start to notice now year in havana you look down the street at off there are restaurants but you cant tell a residential street from a business street because there is no signage.
Thats how it started our intention was to lounge around cuba. We wrote a chapter, sat around with friends we went to venezuela, china, the border of north korea russia, ukraine, georgia is up in chicago and ch, but we just traveled to different sociadifferentdifferef the socialist, former socialist countries. It is a very anthony ordained pj orourke style book. I think if we say that on a second line isnt our normal academic book. We have been good friends for a long time and we are both in texas now, so its easy to collaborate. He was at san jose state and before. What did you find in cuba . At first it feels like any sort of other. Until you start noticing like youre walking down the streets and restaurants or bars that way, looked in other streets you can tell fully residential strt from a business street. One of them is the absolute absence and the other is the prices are just completely dont make sense and i dont know if youve traveled it is a tradeoff between quality and price. A