{"id":35021,"date":"2016-06-09T02:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35021"},"modified":"2016-06-08T08:16:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T12:16:10","slug":"let-people-do-what-they-want-with-their-own-bodies-and-property-qa-with-todd-seavey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/06\/09\/let-people-do-what-they-want-with-their-own-bodies-and-property-qa-with-todd-seavey\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Let people do what they want with their own bodies and property&#8221;: Q&#038;A with Todd Seavey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wxWsHlBX-SM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 7 Jun 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The experience of having everybody around me on campus say the left is the way to go and then&#8230;seeing communism collapse made me think maybe the libertarians have a better handle on how these things work,&#8221; says Todd Seavey, author of the new book <em>Libertarianism for Beginners<\/em>. &#8220;While the Soviet Union existed, the Marxists on campus were rooting for the Soviet Union.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A New York-baseed comic-book writer, one-time producer for TV&#8217;s own John Stossel, and a contributor to <em>Splice Today<\/em>, Seavey found his way toward libertarianism while attending Brown University in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>His new graphic book, <em>Libertarianism for Beginners<\/em>, argues that the core message of libertarians is to &#8220;keep the government small and let people do what they want with their own bodies and property.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 7 Jun 2016 &#8220;The experience of having everybody around me on campus say the left is the way to go and then&#8230;seeing communism collapse made me think maybe the libertarians have a better handle on how these things work,&#8221; says Todd Seavey, author of the new book Libertarianism for Beginners. &#8220;While the Soviet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,79,10,53,13],"tags":[262],"class_list":["post-35021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-education","category-liberty","category-politics","category-usa","tag-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-96R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35022,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35021\/revisions\/35022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}