Attn, Boston Reasonoids: Nick Gillespie Talking Declaration of Independents in Beantown, This Afternoon at 4:30

As longtime readers know, Reason magazine got started in 1968 by a Boston University student named Lanny Friedlander.

On November 15, 2011, I'm happy to inform you that I'll be returning to the scene of the crime for a talk on the book I've coauthored with Matt Welch.

The talk is sponsored by the group Liberty at Boston University.

Details:

The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 4:30 p.m.

 Auditorium (Room 101), College of Communication, Boston University

 640 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts

We are pleased to welcome Nick Gillespie, editor in chief of Reason.tv and Reason.com, the online platforms of Reason, the libertarian magazine of "Free Minds and Free Markets."

Nick will discuss themes from his new book, The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America, which he coauthored with Matt Welch, editor in chief of Reason magazine. BU student Lanny Friedlanderfounded the magazine in 1968, which has since become an award-winning publication with a circulation of 40,000.

The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America

By Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch

Published by PublicAffairs

Everywhere in America, the forces of digitization, innovation, and personalization are expanding our options and bettering the way we live—everywhere except in politics, which is dominated by two political parties whose ever-more-polarized rhetorical positions mask a mutual interest in maintaining a stranglehold on power.

The Declaration of Independents is a compelling and extremely entertaining manifesto on behalf of a system better suited to the future–one structured by the essential libertarian principles of free minds and free markets. Gillespie and Welch profile libertarian innovators, identify the villains propping up the ancien regime, and take aim at do-something government policies that hurt most of those they claim to protect. Their vision will resonate with a wide swath of frustrated citizens and young voters, to whom old tribal allegiances, prejudices, and hang-ups about everything from hearing a foreign language on the street to gay marriage to drug use simply do not make sense.

Order The Declaration of Independents here.  It will also be available at the event.

Reception to follow: Please join us after the event for refreshments and conversation with our guest. 

To register for the event, go here.