You Don’t Own Me: Individualism and the Culture of Liberty with guest Tim Sandefur

The Liberty Exchange
E23 -

Sandefur explores how libertarian values are woven through important works of visual art, literature, film, and other creative endeavors.

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Hosts
Jonathan Fortier
Guests
Timothy Sandefur

Timothy Sandefur is vice president for legal affairs at the Goldwater Institute, where he holds the Clarence J. and Katherine P. Duncan Chair in Constitutional Government. He has litigated important cases involving economic liberty, private property, and other individual rights in courts nationwide. He is also the author of several books, including Freedom’s Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Liberty in an Age of Darkness (2023), Frederick Douglass: Self-​Made Man (2018), and Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st- Century America (second edition, coauthored with Christina Sandefur), as well as scores of scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects.

He has written for Reason, National Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, and The Objective Standard, where he is a contributing editor. He has taught at Pepperdine University, University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law, George Mason University, and Arizona State University, where he held the 2023–2024 Barry Goldwater Chair in American Institutions.

In this episode, Jonathan Fortier talks with Tim Sandefur about his recent book, You Don’t Own Me, published by Lib​er​tar​i​an​ism​.org in 2025. The conversation explores themes of liberty, individualism, and personal autonomy as they find expression in novels, films, blues music and architecture, to name just a few of the genres up for discussion.

Important note:

Tim notes that it was Bernard Taupin, not Tim Rice, that wrote the lyrics for “Nikita”