This is longtime Cato Daily podcast host, Caleb Brown.

I've hosted the Cater Daily podcast for nearly 18 years, but no more.

But I wanted to leave loyal listeners with some favorite episodes that I hope ring true and relevant to our current moment.

This is one of them.

Thank you for listening.

This is the Cato Daily podcast for Thursday, March 19th, 2015.

I'm Caleb Brown.

At today's Cato sponsor briefing, Cato Executive Vice President David Bowes spoke online with Cato sponsors,

answering their questions about his new book, The Libertarian Mind, A Manifesto for Freedom.

I wrote this book because I thought the world needed a contemporary overview of libertarianism.

There are a lot of great books like Atlas Shrug and the Constitution of Liberty and The Road to Surfdom.

There are a lot of books on specific topics, and Cato publishes a lot of those. But I thought there should be a book that libertarians would read to better understand their own philosophy

and would give to their friends and family members who have some curiosity about libertarianism. And I hope that's what I've done.

Okay. Just to get into some contemporary stuff, of course, there are some huge issues that

libertarians have very pointed opinions on, but I'll start with something that was just

in the news in the last couple of days. President Obama has suggested recently that voting be mandatory.

He calls the idea potentially transformative.

So what is a basic libertarian take on that and how, more generally, how do libertarians approach issues

when they think about whether or not a proposal

is good or bad?

Well, of course, the first thing we think about is that in a free society, the presumption

ought to be liberty.

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