# The Libertarian Moment? **URL:** **By** Katherine Mangu-Ward, Trevor Burrus, Aaron Ross Powell **Published:** September 3, 2015 --- Katherine Mangu-Ward joins us to talk about the "libertarian moment" and the past and future of libertarianism more broadly. Is this a libertarian moment? Was there a libertarian moment? Can we expect there to be a libertarian moment? Yes to all three, says _Reason_ managing editor Katherine Mangu-Ward. We also discuss whether younger people are becoming more libertarian, why libertarianism always seems to be associated with the political right, and whether libertarianism depends on technological growth. **Show Notes and Further Reading** This [_New York Times_ column by Robert Draper](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/has-the-libertarian-moment-finally-arrived.html) that first called attention to the "libertarian moment." This Hit \& Run blog post by Reason.com editor Nick Gillespie, "[The Libertarian Moment is Everywhere Around Us (Increasing Social Tolerance Edition)](http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/22/the-libertarian-moment-is-everywhere-aro)". Jonathan Haidt's 2013 book on moral psychology in politics that shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have different intuitions on what is right and wrong, [_The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion_](http://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/0307455777/) . Neal Stephenson's 1992 science-fiction novel predicting the rise of an internet much like the one we know today, _[Snow Crash](http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0553380958/)._ Mangu-Ward's cover article for the November 2012 issue of _Reason_, "[Your Vote Doesn't Count](http://reason.com/archives/2012/10/03/your-vote-doesnt-count)".