Today's the Day: Ask a Libertarian with Matt Welch & Nick Gillespie!

The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America, by Matt Welch and me, comes out on June 28. Click on the link above to preorder from your favorite bookstore, in your favorite format (yes, including Kindle), and to check out early reviews (Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution, George Mason University, and The New York Times calls it "the up-to-date statement about libertarianism.")

Tomorrow, TODAY, June 15, Matt and I will be fielding questions via Twitter, Facebook, email, Hit & Run comments, and the occasional note tied to a brick and thrown through a window on any topic related to our book. We'll be sending out rapid-fire video releases and posting them at Reason's YouTube channel and here from 10am ET til 6pm ET.

To get in the question action, go here for easy ways to toss us a softball or to brush us back from the plate with some inside heat.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Why does Reason let bad things happen to good people?

[Bee Tagger]

More importantly, why do they actively promote for good things to Koch people?

[Anti-IP Anarchist]

preorder from your favorite bookstore, in your favorite format

More important still, would the authors mind if I just pirated it?

[Fist of Etiquette]

How many bitcoins does it cost to buy it?

[Anti-IP Anarchist]

I shouldn't have to buy it!

[stamps foot]

[P Brooks]

Ask a libertarian

I see a syndicated newspaper column, along the lines of "Ask Heloise" or "Dear Abby".

Dear Libertarian Know-it-all,

Why do you hate my poor old granny? If you make her pay her own bills, she might not bequeath her really cool house and fat bankroll to me.

You people are a bunch of monsters!

yrs trly

"Hopeful Inheritor"

[capitol l]

"Fuck off, slaver. Next."

[rather]

Why do you think libertarianism has not historically attracted women, despite recent interest?

[jj]

Because women are social creatures who base decisions on emotion rather than reason.

Go ahead, hate on me. It's true. Look at voting results since suffrage.

[male chauvinist]

Women tend to be irrational and emotional.

For this they are more attracted to the far left's emotional appeals for equality through government force, or the far right's irrational belief in legislated morality.

Libertarianism is rooted in logic and reason, not emotion and irrationality.

That makes it more attractive to men than to women because men tend to be more rational and less emotional than women.

[Anti-IP Anarchist]

Libertarianism is rooted in logic and reason

Ha! Good one.

[Irresponsible Hater]

Why is it so hard to walk uphill in flip-flops?

[SugarFree]

Wear shoes, you filthy hippie.

[rather]

Why are most libertarian men stuck in their pubescent years?

[jj]

Why do you care. Bitch?

[sarcasmic]

Why are most progressives stuck in their pre-pubescent years?

[-]

They are not mutually exclusive.

[Michael]

I am a libertarian who has somehow only ever manages to befriend leftists. What's the quickest, most painless method of suicide?

[wylie]

Seems like a pretty drastic solution. Have you tried just not-having friends?

[Bee Tagger]

He said libertarian, not anarcho-capitalist.

[Heh]

^

[sarcasmic]

Or smoke less dope?

[Michael]

I would but I fear it might lead to friendships with Republicans who don't smoke pot.

[Brett L]

There are fewer of those than your friends have led you to believe.

[X]

Where can I get one of those jackets? And don't say 1973.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Who did Hitler compare his opponents to when he wanted to demonize them?

[CoyoteBlue]

Jesus.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Don't curse under your breath at me. It's a valid question.

[sarcasmic]

rats?

[Sparky]

Tourqemada. NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

[Jaybird]

"Vote for me. My opponents are worse than me."

Even Hitler compared his opponents to Hitler.

[Fartriloquist]

Demons?

[Bee Tagger]

If first-world countries have declining birth rates and all laws are for the children, why does the US have an increasing rate of new laws each year?

[X]

How best to pay public sector pension entitlees? Carousel or Disintegration Booths?

[Episiarch]

A quarter of these posts are trolls and idiots. It's so nice to see H&R become overrun with them. Maybe we can invite Huffington Post, Slate, and Feministing commenters here to fully round out the stupidity and banality.

[rather]

Really? You must be epi Sr. cause epi jr. is one of H&R's predominant jackasses

[Anti-IP Anarchist]

You reap what you sow, duuuude.

[Robert Capozzi]

Nick and Matt,

This (call it) '08-now economic cycle seems different than most in the past 100 years or so. How is it likely to end? What in your estimation would be a plausible path out of these doldrums?

[WixZoo]

They seem like a couple of down to eath people. Really good stuff indeed.

http://www.complete-privacy.no.tc

[Sparky]

What if I know I'm not a Democrat or a Republican and I think I might be a Libertarian but I don't like stupid narrowly defined labels that others might use to determine what they think of me?

PS - I'm pretty sure I'm not an anarchist either.

[Anti-IP Anarchist]

There are no rules in anarchy. Do your own thing, man.

Jeez, I sound just like a hippie...

Uh oh.

[sarcasmic]

Wrong. There are rules in anarchy.
They just aren't backed up with the threat of organized violence from the government.

[Fartriloquist]

Try "libertarian" (as opposed to Libertarian).

[scarpe Nike Store]

is good