Attn, London Reasonoids! Nick Gillespie Speaking at Battle of Ideas, 10/28-29

Debating Trump, Deplorables, and the future of libertarianism this weekend.

Battle of Ideas

I'll be appearing on three panels during the Battle of Ideas, a London event organized by the Institute of Ideas. It takes place this Saturday and Sunday, October 28 and 29. As Claire Fox, the IoI's director puts it:

The Battle of Ideas festival aims to be…a uniquely open forum, where you can meet your 'enemy', listen to opinions you have never heard before, argue back, and even occasionally change your mind. We promise no off-the-shelf answers. More modestly, we bring together a vast range of international speakers to kick-start passionate, serious-minded discussion and public conversations with free-thinking, inquisitive, opinionated attendees. Between us all, we will try and untangle everything from the bastardisation of political language to understanding what makes modern America and Brexit Britain tick beyond the headlines. Since 2005, the festival's slogan has been FREE SPEECH ALLOWED, a crucial rebuttal to today's climate of offence-taking.

Nick Gillespie

There are panels and debates on virtually every possible topic that's in the news. Here are the three I'm appearing on:

Saturday 28 October, 14:00 Frobisher Auditorium 1
THE RUST BELT AND THE DEPLORABLES

Sunday 29 October, 14:00 Cinema 1
CENSORSHIP AND IDENTITY: FREE SPEECH FOR ME BUT NOT FOR YOU?

Sunday 29 October, 16:00 Frobisher Auditorium 2
WHAT IS… LIBERALISM?

For more details and tickets, go here.

Comments

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

"London Reasonoids"

Impossible. You have to own at least 5 AR-15s to be even a basic-membership Reasonoid.

[Mitsima]

Associate Reasonoid?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Campbell soup can art is not cool, broheim.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

FWIW, I'd pay money to listen to Brenan O'Neill deconstruct modern feminism.

[Crusty Juggler]

Florida woman is the most American.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I see someone's been reading my comments on urinal equality here at Reason. Why can't this happen to me?

[Francisco d'Anconia]

You want to pee in the men's urinal?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

No, I want to pee in the women's urinal.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Well, who doesn't?

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

I thought you meant you want the woman to pee on you.

[Brandybuck]

Women's urinal? I always thought those were bidets...

[Crying Zelda Morning Link]

While there's a lot of populist garbage in the Rust Belt, it's also the place best primed for long-term urban revitalization. As Jane Jacobs said, a city needs old buildings for cheap rent, which pretty much describes the Rust Belt. Here on the Twin Cities, the most interesting neighborhoods are the former warehouse districts and the higher density housing that surrounds them. While interesting doesn't necessarily mean valuable, they don't have the kind of liabilities that sprawling suburbs do, or soon will.

So let's just wait for the Trumpalo and Bernie Bro shit to die off or move. The Rust Belt will be fine.

Nick Gillespie Speaking at Battle of Ideas, 10/28-29

Nice. Which of his opponents are representing libertarian ideas?

[Domestic Dissident]

No kidding. By the way, if you actually look at the links, you'll see these events are being brought to you by luminary institutions such as Newsweek Magazine and the Open Society Foundations (aka George Soros).

Gee, I wonder what the predominant point of view is going to be! There won't be a real libertarian in the whole bunch.

Since 2005, the festival's slogan has been FREE SPEECH ALLOWED, a crucial rebuttal to today's climate of offence-taking.

Holding that in the UK is kind of like holding a gay pride parade in Saudi Arabia, isn't it?

Must be policing their own speech or they'd all be in gaol.

[Bra Ket]

Yeah more like a futile rebuttal. Or just wishful thinking.

[Sevo]

Well, some judges, sorta, understand what the branches of the government are supposed to do:
"States Lose Push to Force Trump to Restart Health Subsidies"
[...]
"A U.S. judge on Wednesday rejected a request from 18 states and the District of Columbia to force the Trump administration to resume paying "Obamacare" subsidies right away and scolded the coalition for claiming health care costs would rise without federal help."
https://www.usnews.com/ news/politics/articles/2017-10-25/judge -trump-doesnt-have-to-resume -health-care-subsidies