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...nerds aren't supposed to be quite this nerdy. The leader of the disaffected in next year's presidential election - the Howard Dean, the Ross Perot, the Pat Buchanan - is a kindly great-grandfather and obstetrician whose passion is monetary policy. Paul, a 72-year-old hard-core libertarian Republican Congressman who is against foreign intervention, subsidies and the federal income tax, is not only drawing impressive crowds (more than 2,000 at a post-debate rally at the University of Michigan last month) but also raising tons of cash. In the third quarter of 2007, Paul took...
...Harvard represents a microcosm for this general confusion. In the dining hall poll cited earlier, while only 16 percent of those surveyed aligned themselves with libertarian politics, 28 percent considered themselves to be socially liberal but fiscally conservative, a typical libertarian stance. This is a large minority to be sure, and one that could probably grow given impetus and organization...
...Furthermore, opportunities are there for libertarians to expand. In a country discontented by government regulation and spending, people are looking for new politics. Plus, at least for students, there are both grants and support available from national libertarian organizations...
...Last summer, for example, Harris spent eight weeks with free housing and on a $1,500 stipend attending the Charles Koch Seminar. Through the seminar, he was able to meet other libertarian college students and spend six weeks in an internship at the Cato Institute. The force behind the majority of these libertarian contacts and grants is the Institute for Humane Studies. The Institute prides itself on promoting policies aimed at liberty—typically in the form of libertarianism among college and graduate students. This aid materializes in the form of internships, summer seminars, and annual donations of around...
...Institute for Humane Studies and other libertarian support networks must rely on promotion of libertarian theory as opposed to political agendas. And though Harvard and a number of other schools boast libertarian organizations, the scattered aspect of the philosophy makes it difficult, even with such great support, for these students to mobilize. But the libertarians seem to be hopeful. At the very least, as Cato’s Boaz puts it, “On the broad issue, I definitely think there are more people in the socially liberal, fiscally conservative camp. That means people are ‘broadly?...