This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, January 17th, 2018.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The Libertarian Student Movement has grown by leaps and bounds, so where does it stand today?

And just how bad is the intellectual climate on campus?

And what is the intellectual basis for campus-based opposition to the freedom of speech.

Wolf von Laire is president of Students for Liberty.

We spoke earlier this month.

Ten years ago, there was no Students for Liberty and there was not an international network of students working towards the ideas of liberty, i.e. free speech, free markets and working to like a more just and free society.

Of course there were student groups and even some

with a very lengthy history in places like Belgium and all around the world and including the United States.

However they were not very organized and I think that students

for liberty has done a very good job on that in the last 10 years to build really a unified

forum for all of these different groups and we are now active in over 100 countries

active meaning that we have a student in a country for instance Venezuela for

instance the United States of America or Lithuania who has applied to our programs who then went through a thorough application

process, got accepted and then trained online and in person.

That means that we have somebody on the ground, that we know and that we know is actually doing things.

What do you see as the impact of young people fighting specifically for the advancement of liberty?

The... fighting specifically for the advancement of liberty.

The icons that I can really think of,

Kim Kataguri, among others, in Brazil.

I mean, we're instrumental in having a president removed from office, but where

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