The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America [Paperback]

Everywhere in America, the forces of digitization, innovation, and personalization are expanding our options and bettering the way we live. Everywhere, that is, except in our politics. There we are held hostage to an eighteenth century system, dominated by two political parties whose ever-more-polarized rhetorical positions mask a mutual interest in maintaining a stranglehold on power.

The Declaration of Independentsis a compelling and extremely entertaining manifesto on behalf of a system better suited to the future--one structured by the essential libertarian principles of free minds and free markets. Gillespie and Welch profile libertarian innovators, identify the villains propping up theancien regime, and take aim at do-something government policies that hurt most of those they claim to protect. Their vision will resonate with a wide swath of frustrated citizens and young voters, born after the Cold War's end, to whom old tribal allegiances, prejudices, and hang-ups about everything from hearing a foreign language on the street to gay marriage to drug use simply do not make sense.Nick Gillespieis the editor-in-chief of the websites Reason.tv and Reason.com andMatt Welchheads up the print edition ofReason, which since 1968 has been a kick-ass, no-holds-barred political magazine (New York Post) whose refusal to carry water for the Republicans or Democrats is deeply refreshing in this age of partisan bickering (Folio).

Kirkus,May 5, 2011

An enthusiastic, entertaining libertarian critique of American politics, brimming with derision for the status quo and optimism for the future and confident of the right direction.”

Marginal Revolution,May 20, 2011

“This is the up-to-date statement of libertarianism.  Not warmed-over right-wing politics, but real, true-blooded libertarianism in the sense of loving liberty and wanting tlã!