Kenelm Tonkin is the founder of Liberty Itch and, appropriately, the guest for Episode 1 of the Liberty Itch Podcast. Kenelm explains the reason and goals for Liberty Itch along with providing fascinating insights into the history and current direction of Libertarianism in Australian Politics.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Introduction
0:58 – What is Liberty Itch?
2:47 – Is libertarianism a “centre-right” ideology?
5:17 – What most voters think libertarian is
9:12 – Example of how libertarianism can sound leftwing
10:15 – Defining libertarianism
12:06 – Ideologies and the 3 philosophies which compete
14:21 – On the socialists’ hijack of the word “liberalism”
19:43 – 7 Hallmarks of libertarianism and libertarianism’s opponents
22:40 – On socialism and communism
27:05 – On conservatism, 2 tugboats and a cargo ship, and The Overton Window
36:36 – Libertarians as agents of change and progress
42:30 – What capitalism looks like
54:27 – The morality of libertarianism
59:08 – John Locke, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill and The Harm Principle
1:04:45 – Frédéric Bastiat, David Hume, Thomas Jefferson and the Lockean US Declaration of Independence
1:09:25 – Alexis de Tocqueville and his “flock of timid and industrious animals”
1:13:24 – Lord Acton, Montesquieu, Thomas Paine, Jean-Baptiste Say, Willliam Gladstone, Lysander Spooner, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Robert Nozick, Murray Rothbard, Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman
1:17:14 – Moving forward by offering an alternate vision
1:20:33 – A libertarian strategy for the public square, Senator David Leyonhjelm, David Limbrick, Caroline White
1:26:50 – Evangelising libertarianism by directly contrasting against socialism and conservatism on policy: economics, taxation, energy, education, censorship
1:36:42 – How to revivify civilisation
1:40:38 – How the Libertarian Party wins
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