Economist Walter Block is fond of saying if you stick ten libertarians in a room, you get 11 different opinions.  It’s because libertarianism has become little more than a self-obsessed glorified debate club that I left the ideology years ago. Over time libertarianism didn’t change; I changed, and I suspect I was right to. My hunch comes the recent dust up emanating from the home base of radical anti-statism, the Ludwig von Mises Institute. The Institute’s president, Jeff Deist, delivered a stirring and thoughtful speech on libertarian strategy in the age of Trump and Brexit to the 2017 Mises University class. Rather than dismiss the rising nationalist tide, Deist encourages libertarians to get their toes wet and try to understand the emotive longings that excite voters. Citing that gadfly of scholasticism, Murray Rothbard, Deist defines libertarianism in classical fashion: “Humans are sovereign over their mind and body, meaning you own...(Read Full Article)