Perhaps they’re not as salient to those of you who don’t spend your days on college campuses, but Students for Liberty is pretty freakin’ amazing. I’ve been watching small libertarian groups
come and go on various college campuses for about the last 15 years
now, and I have never seen (or read about?) a student libertarian
organization that is this big, this passionate, this well-organized, and
this knowledgeable. Their regional and international conferences, their webinar series, the symposia series they run with Liberty Fund, their books, everything they do is just terrific.
What’s really drawn my attention recently, however, is the way in
which these students transcend so much of what has been objectionable
about the libertarian movement in its past incarnations. Both in terms
of its demographics and its substantive political and moral concerns,
today’s movement seems broader, more inclusive, and more in keeping with
the liberalism of classical liberalism than much of what we’ve seen before. For starters, there seem to be
many more women and racial minorities involved than I’ve ever before
seen. Not that the libertarian movement of the past set an exceptionally
high hurdle. But progress is still good to see – even if it’s purely
anecdotal or secondhand on my part. Anyone have any firm numbers?
Comment by:
PureTrust (#010621) Entered on: 2012-02-08 10:48:58
I guess this is simply an enlargement of what is said in FP. What it does for me is, it shows me that the little that I have seen of student activism is just the tip of the iceberg. If I really want to find out what student activism is all about, I need to investigate further. There is in this article, however, the promise that my investigation will be rewarded greatly.
Comment by:
Psychictaxi (#005272) Entered on: 2012-02-08 09:56:37
The only reason I clicked on this article was to find out what a 'Bleeding Heart Libertarian' was.
