Libertarians on our Radio

Reason Magazine is a bunch of infu­ri­at­ingly cocky lib­er­tarian wonks, who write well and are gen­er­ally con­vincing despite being fun­da­men­tally wrong about life and every­thing. They’re charmers by and large, living out their Heinlein-​​goes-​​to-​​Washington boy (and girl)hood fantasy lives in print.

Jesse Walker is managing editor for Reason. He lives in Baltimore, but according to his blog, last Thursday he covered a slot on WCBN. I’m sorry I missed that, I guess I was in Chicago. It seems he was a student and dj here back in the ambiguous day and this was a tri­umphalist return.

For fun, here’s what lib­er­tarian turbo-​​intellectuals sound like when they play music and talk into a microphone:

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Sounds good. Go figure. Playlist included in Walker’s blog post.

Update: if I’d read some of Jesse’s other blog posts, I would have realized that he is living in Ann Arbor for a while, and has a regular Thurs. 12-​​3p show. The posted audio is just the first episode. Right on.

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