Are Government Shutdowns Good for Libertarians?: Podcast
Rebutting Krugman, cracking on Graham, and searching in vain for "freedom" in a caucus.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–S.C.) has had an interesting week of defending President Donald Trump's bluster in the ongoing government shutdown, most recently yesterday on Fox News, which is where we start this week's Reason Podcast, editors' roundtable edition.
Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, and yours truly talk about national emergencies, prohibition metaphors, opportunistic defenders of "freedom," and whether Paul Krugman was right when he called the shutdown a "big, beautiful libertarian experiment." Also up for discussion are the negative reactions to Democratic presidential contender Tulsi Gabbard, the hawkish anti-Trumpery of the D.C. foreign policy/intelligence consensus, and the modern capitalistic miracle of eyewear.
Subscribe, rate, and review our podcast at iTunes. Listen at SoundCloud below:
Audio production by Ian Keyser.
'Hallon' by Christian Bjoerklund is licensed under CC BY NC SA 3.0
Relevant links from the show:
"Sorry, Paul Krugman, the Government Shutdown Is No Great Libertarian Experiment," by Peter Suderman
"Trump's National Emergency Is an American Obscenity," by Matt Welch
"'Our Porous Border' and Other Myths of Trump's Increasingly Popular Wall Mania," by Nick Gillespie
"Freedom Caucus Chair Mark Meadows Supports Asset Forfeiture, National Emergency Declaration to Fund Wall," by Robby Soave
"The Democrats' Alternative to Trump's Wall Isn't Good for Privacy or Property Rights Either," by Christian Britschgi
"Mitch McConnell is Keeping the Senate Out of the Shutdown Fight. It's a Hypocritical Abdication of Congressional Responsibility," by Peter Suderman
"Please, TSA Workers, Don't Come Back," by J.D. Tuccille
"For Once, the TSA Is Right," by Joe Setyon
"Tulsi Gabbard, Iraq War Veteran and Skeptic of America's Wars, Will Run for President in 2020," by Eric Boehm
Don't miss a single Reason Podcast! (Archive here.)
What are we consuming this week?
Katherine Mangu-Ward
- Got new, cool, affordable glasses thanks to capitalism
Nick Gillespie
Peter Suderman