Louis Rossetto Is Wired for Optimism: New at Reason

While still an undergraduate at Columbia, future Wired magazine co-founder Louis Rossetto co-authored a 1971 New York Times Magazine cover story on “The New Right Credo.” In his view, liberalism, conservatism, and “leftist radicalism” had all proven to be bankrupt political philosophies, leaving their “refugees” to coalesce under a new banner: libertarianism. More recently, he is author of Change Is Good: A Story of the Heroic Era of the Internet, a crowdfunded novel he published with legendary designer Erik Spiekermann. Reason‘s Nick Gillespie talked with Rossetto about his new book and how his political predictions hold up in the era of Donald Trump.

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