This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, February 10th, 2015.

I'm Caleb Brown.

After two devastating wars, chronic deficits, massive debt, continued surveillance of Americans,

and a decades-long disastrous drug war,

Americans are disillusioned with prevailing political thinking.

In his new book, the Libertarian Mind, the Cato Institute's David Bose presents his argument on behalf of libertarianism, the philosophy of personal and economic freedom.

What are we going to learn from the Libertarian mind that we don't learn, haven't learned from your previous book.

Well, first, 99.9% of Americans didn't learn anything from my previous book because they didn't buy it.

So the first start is 99% of the audience is still there.

And so what I think you learn fundamentally from the book is the basic libertarian ideas in areas like law, economics, the history of

libertarian thought, individualism and pluralism, how big government works.

It's kind of an applied public choice chapter.

And those chapters are much the same as they were before.

But in this new book I am talking a lot more about Bush and Obama

and a little bit about the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street. I've added a good

bit on America's Libertarian Heritage as

described by leading political scientists and then I get into more current issues

like terrorism, inequality, over criminalization, cronyism, and the vast wealth of Washington.

Put into perspective this idea of a libertarian moment and why it may or may not be here.

I think you could say that in 2008 the American people rejected the extreme social

conservatism and

now they're looking for in 2014 they rejected big government big spending

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