Nick Gillespie || Libertarianism, Soft Parenting, and Cancel Culture

The Psychology Podcast

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🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Today it’s great to have Nick Gillespie on the podcast. Nick is a libertarian journalist who is currently an editor at large at Reason. A two-time finalist for digital National Magazine Awards, Gillespie’s work has appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, Slate, Salon, Time.com, Marketplace, and basically any other publication that you’re ever going to read. The Daily Beast named Nick one of “The Right’s Top 25 Journalists”, calling him “clear headed, brainy…among the foremost libertarians in America.”

Topics

· Reason: “free minds and free markets”

· What does being a libertarian mean?

· A critique of American’s intervention in Afghanistan

· Nick’s childhood and upbringing

· The values of libertarianism

· Parallels between Maslow and libertarianism

· Nick’s pseudonym Mr. Myxzptlk

· Child-proofing the world

· How parenting styles and expectations shape children

· The millennial experience of pressure and self-actualization

· The paradox of marginalization and acceptance in current society

· The purpose of cancel culture

· Canceling people in positions of power

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0:00.0	Today. Today it's great to have Nick Gillespie on the podcast. Nick is a
0:17.8	Libertarian journalist who is currently an editor at large at reason. A two-time
0:22.3	finalist for Digital National Magazine Awards, Gillespie's work has appeared
0:26.1	in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times,
0:30.0	the New York Post, slate, salon, time. Com, Marketplace, and basically any other publication
0:34.7	that you're ever going to read.
0:36.3	The Daily Beast named Nick one of, quote,
0:38.9	the Wright's top 25 journalists calling him, quote,
0:42.6	clear-headed, brainy, among the foremost libertarians
0:46.3	in America.
0:47.6	Nick, it's so great to have you on the show today.
0:50.0	Thanks for having me, Scott.
0:51.0	It's a real pleasure to be here.
0:53.0	The motto of Reason magazine which you've really spearheaded and have been part of
0:59.9	Parcella for many years is quote free minds and free markets. I was wondering if we could
1:05.8	start with you kind of explaining what that means and you know even just
1:10.8	our listeners who aren't even familiar with the libertarianism at all
1:16.0	yeah so reason was uh... founded in nineteen sixty eight by a guy who was a student at
1:21.8	Boston university uh... and then it kind of migrated from him and from Boston to Santa Barbara on the West Coast to LA where it's still technically headquartered and now we have a big office in
1:34.6	Washington DC as well as people scattered all over the country and we
1:38.9	we started out as a monthly politics and culture magazine kind of similar to the New Republic or National
1:45.2	Review along those lines.
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