Help Choose "The 50 Most Influential Libertarians" at FreedomFest with William Shatner This July!

Survey asks for picks from politics, business, media, and more. Participate and get $100 off FreedomFest registration.

FreedomFest

The 10th year of FreedomFest, the world's largest annual gathering of libertarian and free-market thinkers, activists, and policymakers takes place in Las Vegas between July 19 to July 22 at Bally's Paris resort.

Confirmed speakers include William Shatner talking about space exploration and the cultural staying power of Star Trek and newscasting legend John Stossel and there will be a celebration of the life and ideas of Steve Forbes, longtime FreedomFest "co-ambassador." There will also be a slate of special "Reason Day" sessions that deliver cutting-edge views on "Free Minds and Free Markets."

To add to the excitement, FreedomFest impresario Mark Skousen has teamed up with Newsmax magazine to produce a list of "the 50 Most Influential Libertarians" in each of eight different categories such as business and finance, entertainment and the news, freedom-movement organizations, media, politics, and academia.

Among the Reasoners in the hunt are Ronald Bailey, Brian Doherty, and Virginia Postrel (authors); John Stossel, Matt Welch, and myself (media); and Katherine Mangu-Ward, David Nott, and Robert W. Poole (think tanks and educational institutions).

You can vote for up to five candidates in each category and the survey is open until March 15.

Go here now to cast your ballot and get $100 off your FreedomFest registration fee.

Over the past years, Reason TV has interviewed dozens of libertarians ranging from P.J. O'Rourke to Penn Jillette to John Mackey to Crossfit creator Greg Glassman to LP presidential ticket Gary Johnson and Bill Weld. Go here for a complete list.

And click below to watch last year's raucous debate among Matt Welch, Jeffrey Tucker, Dan Magru, Wayne Allyn Root and me over whether libertarians should vote for Donald Trump. Called the most controversial and intense panel ever at FreedomFest, it's something to behold.

Comments

[Rufus The Monocled]

50? There are that many?

You'd better make it rhyme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ehFz4OPn0Q

[Monty Crisco]

Exactly. I was gonna say "Is the answer "none of the above"?"

Libertarians are in no way influential... it is at the core of our creed...

[CE]

And if they were, we would resist that influence. it's part of being contrarian.

[Zombie Jimbo]

Milo!

[Fist of Etiquette]

You had me at Shatner.

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

Shatner? I hardly knew her.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

What are Shatner's political views? I remember seeing him on some talk show a few years back where he was making fun of libertarians.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

I think Bill will be impressed to be at a gathering that has more socially awkward nerds and fewer women than a Star Trek convention.

[commodious rebrands]

Gold, Jerry!

[Cynical Asshole]

Thread winner. Shut it down folks, it's over.

[Kauzig Kristen]

Judging by the options, there really are no female libertarians!

(also, Dave BArry)

[Kauzig Kristen]

Where's Mike Rowe?

Also, Rob KamPia.

Fuckin hell, what a mess that list is!

[John Titor]

Gillespie doesn't know about any pop culture figures from after 1999, sorry.

[UnCivilServant]

Space: 1999?

[Juice]

Where's Mike Rowe?

Off somewhere being not libertarian.

Rob KamPia

Who?

[Zeb]

Rob Kampia is the Marijuana Policy Project guy. The one who hired Bob Barr.

[Princess Trigger]

Will he sing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXWEM4gZhg4

[Kauzig Kristen]

They're claiming Freedom Fest is the "Burning Man" of libertarianism. Because nothing says hippy dippy outdoorsy freewheeling festival like meeting in a hotel built to look like the Eiffel Tower in a city/state with some of the most felonious cannabis laws in the country. Fun.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

I was promised there would be seasteading islands. What's the hold up?

[Cynical Asshole]

SHAT!!!!!!!!!!

[Cynical Asshole]

a list of "the 50 Most Influential Libertarians" in each of eight different categories such as business and finance, entertainment and the news, freedom-movement organizations, media, politics, and academia.

Some of those categories are going to be really hard to find 50 influential Libertarians. In fact, I'd be surprised if there 50 Libertarians total in entertainment and the news, media, politics, or academia.

Or is it 50 total across all 8 categories? I was assuming it was 50 in each, but now that I think about it, that would be a total of 400. I don't think there's 400 Libertarians in the entire world. Certainly not that many that would be considered "influential." It's hard to influence much of anything when you're living in your mom's basement playing D&D with your friends well into your 40s. /sarc

[Citizen X - #6]

No Shikha Dalmia?

[B.P.]

Beat me to it.

But seriously, I was unaware that Woody Harrelson has libertarian leanings.

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

Pot, ass sex.
I mean, how many boxes do you need checked?

[Cynical Asshole]

Damn you!

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

Noted.

[Cynical Asshole]

He's pro weed, and probably pro Mexican ass-sex. What else is there?

[Citizen X - #6]

Woody Harrelson is an anarchist, actually. The serious kind, by which i mean not some black bloc commie-chic asshole.

[Zeb]

Is he? I looked at his WIkipedia bio and it just said "anarchist", leaving me unsure about what kind of anarchist. He is also apparently an environmentalist, a vegan and a raw food-ist. Which seems suspect. But I have a friend who is into that stuff and is also a Trump supporting an-cap atheist who just married a woman who is a Christian Sabbath keeper. So weirder things happen.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Raw food-ist = someone who subsists primarily on cashews.

[Zeb]

Cashews are really weird.

[Mongo]

I'm one of the Most Influential Libertarians from the waist down.

[Cynical Asshole]

I thought you were "only pawn, in game of life."

[Citizen X - #6]

Does your girlfriend still like it when you pack her the hot lunch? That's a weird thing to admit to a bunch of internet strangers, man.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

I hope the hot lunch is vegetarian. Otherwise, eww.

[Sevens]

Shattner just there to entertain, or does his political philosophy align?

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

Shatner has boldly let himself go.

/Jeffrey Ross

[Juice]

Let himself boldly go.

Get it right.

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

I like my version worser.

[Sevens]

Eh, whatever. For his clothes, it wasn't the last front-tear.

[CE]

You try to diet when they give you a souvenir food replicator for a retirement gift.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Jeffrey Ross is a national treasure.

[SparktheRevolt]

Who is Penn Gillette?

[MarkLastname]

I have it on good authority that the Koch bros control the world, so should they win hands down?

[CE]

Capt. Kirk will always be No. 1. "Prime Directive? What prime directive?"

[Trainer]

The most influential libertarian I know is the one that helped me realized that I was a libertarian. Can we do a whole Time Man of the Year things and just write in "Real Libertarians"?

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