John Stossel on Students For Liberty's Celebration of Freedom
On Saturday, some 1,500 students from all over the world gathered to discuss freedom at the Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, D.C. Even in an audience filled with libertarians, there were unsettled issues and divisive questions. Some students and speakers sounded a lot like the campus leftists who complain about "privilege." Others sounded conservative and sought guidance from their religion. John Stossel suggests that this diversity is a good sign for the future of libertarian ideas. There are many ways for free people to live and to accomplish their goals—and as these students learned, the most important thing is not to assume that government has the answer to the questions. Old politicians and old voters may never change their minds. But libertarianism grows fastest among the young, and so groups like Students for Liberty hold out hope.