Tonight on The Independents: What’s the Matter With Libertarians?

For tonight’s special theme episode of your favorite nightly
cable chat show, Fox Business Network’s The
Independents (9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT, repeats three hours
later), host Kennedy puts
libertarians on the couch.
Literally:

Social psychologist and moral-values measurer
Jonathan Haidt explains
the unique set of values and personality traits found most commonly
among libertarians, a theme he explores further in this
Reason.tv video. Right-leaning hawks
Ralph Peters and Stephen Hayes beat us up
for our “naive” foreign policy. Left-leaning commentators Alan Colmes and Lynn Parramore argue with
us over regulation and the safety net. Fox News Legal Analyst and
former prosecutor Lis
Wiehl takes issue with our anti-prohibition stance. Heritage
Foundation fellow Ryan
Anderson whacks us for supporting gay marriage.

Topping the sundae, Libertarian Party presidential nominee
Gary Johnson (see
his 2010 Reason.tv interview
here) argues why capital-L Libertarianism beats small-l
libertarian Republicanism. And we’ll share a raft of information
about how, despite whatever defects of libertarians,
libertarianism is gaining a bigger and bigger foothold
among Americans at large.  

It’s a nifty and contentious show, pass it along! Again, that’s
9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT, with repeats three hours later. Go to the
show website for video
of past segments, follow the @IndependentsFBN on
Twitter, and I’ll bump this post after 8 for purposes of
open-threading. Whatsamatta you!