This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, August 17th, 2018. I'm Kieleb Brown.

Reconciling a religious faith with both libertarian ideas and notions of the common good shouldn't be too difficult.

And yet so many critics view libertarian thinking as perfectly incompatible with, say say Catholicism.

Stephanie Slade is managing editor at Reason magazine and author of a new piece in America magazine

a Libertarian case for the common good.

We spoke this week. There are several things I want to get to here that

are interrelated. One is reconciling faith with being a libertarian and for libertarian, the confusion is over reconciling being a libertarian

with any notion is a common good whatsoever.

So you're a Catholic, I'm a Quaker, my producer Jeff is Jewish. So when you try to reconcile

your faith with your Libertarian inclinations and first principles, is that a difficulty for you?

It's not.

I've never really seen the problem the way many people seem to think there is a problem here.

And one of the things that came out when I was doing

the research for this piece was I was reading all the critics and what they had to say about

libertarianism from a Catholic perspective.

And what I realized was a lot of those criticisms are a definition that they have that is not at all

the definition that we would use of what it means to be a libertarian or what

libertarianism is all about. Okay so when people complain about economists and

this is similar to way people complain about libertarians they view economists

as homoeconomics and they will do absolutely anything

to move their total utility up and out on the charts and for economists look at that and they say what a

dismal life that would be if I were only thinking about dollars and making all of

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