I am considering transferring from a Poli Sci PhD program to a Public Policy program cause the former is way too distant from real world policy debates. I like theory, but would like to study applied politics as well. Does anyone know if Libertarians have a place in Public Policy PhD programs? I li…

To answer your question, basically no. If you’re truly interested in liberty, I would stay away from public policy. Gary North actually had an excellent piece on this just last week. Not to mention, as a libertarian, there are more effective things you could be doing than essentially validating Sta…

Thanks John, Would you please send Walter Block’s email to me? I don’t have outlook express on my computer and have never understood how to set it up. thanks! sshhi2001@yahoo.com David

wblock@loyno.edu is Walter Block’s email for those like me without Outlook Express. Thanks again John!

You don’t need Outlook. Just right-click on that hyperlink and say “copy email address”. That will get it on your clipboard. Then you paste it in your email message. Or just grab it from here .

John, I just read the piece by North, and think he is actually saying that academic studies is preferrable to think tanks that try to implement policy. I imagine he would prefer libertarians infiltrate political science, than public policy, but from my experience, that field does not tolerate people…

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