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...year later, a new organization called the Harvard Libertarian Forum (HLF) was up and running. This was thanks in part to the savvy organizational skills of now-President Harris and Vice President John M. Sheffield ’09, but was also the result of a wave of student interest. While the club has only a few die-hard members, according to Harris, the Forum has been steadily growing since its founding and currently boasts a mailing list of about one hundred people...
...While this represents a small subset of Harvard’s undergraduate population, FM’s research suggests the existence of a sizeable number of students who don’t label themselves as politically Libertarian but do hold libertarian views on various social and economic topics. But there is a serious disconnect: while the proportion of students who hold libertarian beliefs (with a small “l”) might be growing, the growth of Libertarianism as an organized political party (with a capital “L”) is constrained by the entrenched two-party...
...Deontological Libertarianism is probably the branch more widely recognized among the non-libertarian population. They draw a distinct line between themselves and the consequentialists in that they see certain inherent rights as absolutely untouchable, regardless of costs of noninterference...
...There’s this strong man version of libertarian principles which says that we have rules and rights and we do everything by these rules and rights,” says Miron. “And when you ask them why, they say, well people are happier with these rights. That’s a consequentialist view. What we’re doing is talking about the consequentialist’s arguments...
...with his strong views, Harris is open to both listening to and accepting others. He has to be, considering his family, which he describes as “ranging from Dennis Kucinich on the right to Leon Trotsky on the left.” Harris, who agreed with the libertarian philosophy before he “even knew the name,” learned at a very early age how and when he could win his political battles. Which is probably a good thing, as even the Libertarian Forum’s two major officers (Harris and Sheffield) disagree...