Five Foreign Intellectuals Make the Case for American Exceptionalism

by | Dec 11, 2020

The true humanitarian rejoices when the people he helps feel ready to assert their independence and to strike out on their own; for isn’t this independence essential to being truly human?

Murray N. Rothbard 

Left and Right, pp. 307–08

I ask the first three men the same question, then read from the works of the last two men.
0:00 – JF Gariepy, author and biologist
2:53 – Johan Norberg, author and historian
4:41 – Frank Furedi, author and professor of Sociology at University of Kent
7:04 – Yaron Brook, author and chairman of the board at the Ayn Rand Institute
10:02 – Hans-Hermann Hoppe, author and former professor of economics at University of Nevada Las Vega

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Keith Knight is Managing Editor at the Libertarian Institute, host of the Don't Tread on Anyone podcast and editor of The Voluntaryist Handbook: A Collection of Essays, Excerpts, and Quotes.

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