David Boaz: "Now, It’s Your Turn"
Cato Podcast
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4.5 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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David Boaz, longtime executive vice president of the Cato Institute, has passed away at the age of 70. His contributions to the advance of libertarian ideas in the public sphere are hard to overestimate. These are his remarks at the Students for Liberty LibertyCon in February.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, June 7th, 2024. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm Caleb Brown. |
| 0:05.8 | David Bose, the longtime intellectual powerhouse of the Cato Institute |
| 0:09.9 | and its long-time executive vice president, |
| 0:12.4 | helped grow the Institute into a leading think tank. |
| 0:15.6 | He did a great deal to mainstream many of the ideas that form the foundation of libertarian |
| 0:19.8 | thought. |
| 0:21.2 | David was one of the clearest, most consistent, consistent and most positive exponents of the idea that liberty is |
| 0:27.3 | essential to prosperity and harmony. |
| 0:30.8 | According to those who knew his work best, David Bose was The Essential Libertarian, Liberty's North Star, |
| 0:37.0 | Our Great Persuader, a mentor, scholar, and friend. |
| 0:42.0 | David Bose has died at the age of 70. What follows our remarks David |
| 0:46.7 | gave at the Students for Liberty, Liberty Con, held earlier this year. |
| 0:50.8 | Thank you to Students for Liberty. I'm so glad to be back on a Students for Liberty podium. |
| 0:55.5 | I was the first outside speaker at a Students for Liberty podium 15 years ago at their organizing conference. |
| 1:04.1 | Glad to be back here. |
| 1:05.8 | Too often libertarians and also conservatives |
| 1:09.6 | believe that we are actually on the road to serfdom. I want to give you a more optimistic view |
| 1:16.1 | along with a warning and a challenge. For millennia, I want to start with some |
| 1:21.9 | history, for millennia, with few exceptions, the world was marked |
| 1:26.8 | by despotism, slavery, hierarchy, rigid class privilege, and literally no increase in the standard of living over hundreds of years. |
| 1:36.9 | And then the Western world experienced the Enlightenment. |
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