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How about this: Our awesome long-form Q&As. Our new print
issue on “libertarian realism”
features not one but TWO lengthy Q&As with famous
libertarian-leaning politicians with the last name “Paul.” Here with Ron
and here
with Rand we probe their definitions of when (if ever!) the
United States should use deadly force abroad. This is just what we
do. Let’s go through the years looking at some classic interviews,
shall we?

2014: TV host Mike Rowe:
Diplomas
vs. Dirty Jobs

2013: America’s most syndicated
columnist:
George Will’s Libertarian Evolution

Decades’ more worth, after the jump.

2012: Economist, physicist, and market
anarchist:
David Friedman on How to Privatize Everything

2011:
Former MTV VJ and Radio Host Kennedy on Medical Marijuana, The
Politics of Alt Rock, and How She Went From Conservative to
Libertarian

2010:
Adam Carolla Uncensored: Legalize Drugs, Cut Taxes, Drive Through
Red Lights!

2009: John
Mackey’s Conscious Capitalism

2008: Grover Norquist:

An Alliance for Freedom?

2007:
An Interview With Matt Taibbi: Rolling Stone’s controversial chief
political reporter on Campaign 2008, following Hunter S. Thompson,
and his new book

2006: Trey Parker and Matt
Stone: South
Park Libertarians

2005: The
Iconoclast: Salman Rushdie discusses free speech, fundamentalism,
America’s place in the world, and his new essay collection

2004: David
Simon Says: The creator of HBO’s The Wire talks about the decline
of journalism, the failure of the drug war, and a new kind of
TV