Article on Free State Project in WSJ - "The Great American Disconnect"

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The Great American Disconnect

The U.S. has been drifting into a collection of red or blue enclaves. Libertarians decided they needed a state of their own.

By KYLE PETERSON
March 18, 2016

Fifteen years ago a Yale grad student named Jason Sorens began pondering what might seem like a wild question: How many libertarians would it take to commandeer a state government?

At the time Mr. Sorens, then a 24-year-old campus libertarian, felt failed by electoral politics. The Libertarian Party had earned a few million votes in the 2000 elections, but these were scattered throughout the country, and its candidates had never won a federal office. (The still haven't.) Maybe the solution was for libertarians to pack up and move–to converge on a sparsely populated state and take over.

This wasn't an entirely new idea. For decades libertarians had dreamed of creating a polity to call their own. "There had been some efforts to build sandbars in the Pacific, to anchor a concrete ship in the Caribbean, and they'd all failed miserably," says Mr. Sorens, who now lectures in political science at Dartmouth College. "I wanted something that could be done easily for most people–relatively easily, compared to moving into the middle of the Pacific."

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more:
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/print/WSJ_-A011-20160319.pdf

 

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here is a video of the author Kyle Peterson discussing the article with a member of the WSJ editorial board

http://www.wsj.com/video/opinion-jo...ire/0391EA5A-66C6-4E3D-ADA4-57EB7B0EEE96.html




and if anyone missed it WSJ did a short video report on the Free State Project a few weeks ago


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjD5Fu-X_rE

 

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Three part series on the Free State Project in The Dartmouth, America's oldest college newspaper.

http://thedartmouth.com/2016/04/18/libertarianism-in-the-woods-of-new-hampshire/
http://thedartmouth.com/2016/04/21/new-hampshire-culture-fosters-libertarian-ideals/
http://thedartmouth.com/2016/04/21/libertarians-struggle-in-elections/

 

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