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[cheers and applause] john: as i look here, i see disproportional white men in ties, even bow ties. they look like the over class. i would think its a turnoff. >> theres a lot of white men here. it has more to doowith libertarianism being nerdy more than anything else to be honest with you. im a nerd myself, so i can say that. john: all right. this is all food for thought. audience, i want to ask, whose argument is better? who is more persuasive? lets have a vote. who sides with julie, not argue...

Of a statue they are uncomfortable to walk around campus, go to class, and learn, something is wrong with our level of tolerance for the different views. youre going to see, you know, white men, maybe in their underwear sometime in your life. you cant let that throw off your entire lifestyle. john: thank you, robert. [cheers and applause] coming up, well talk drugs and privacy, but next, are you students ripped off by your college? i think many of you are. thats next. [applause]

How can we convince them? kathy and julie say they know how. julie has a youtube channel called token libertarian girl. kathy is editor of a blog called sex and the state. which is a cool title. [laughter] kathy, you say to open other peoples minds, libertarians should check their privilege. what does that mean? >> unfortunately, libertarianism is overwhelmingly dominated by straight, middle income, well-educated white men, nd so -- john: the overclass. >> right. how can we make libertarianism a...

John: personal safety. >> gives me services, but the nsa says i give you personal safety, or i might put you in jail; right? this is kind of the backstop. going the cant put me in jail. the nsa can. john: let me poll the audience, who agrees with her? [cheers and applause] who agrees with me? very few. im losing this. all right. your turn, students. >> im michael line, doing political philosophy at the university of arizona. im self-diagnosed with bipolar disorder and a host of medicines i take ...

Well-meaninged authoritarians say we can reduce the amount if we make it illegal. >> and thats worked out so well so far. [laughter] john: they argue more of it. [applause] >> like this, you know, cocaine inventing machines, is it the american way? i get than an alarming concepp to people, but if you look at the huge damage that the war on drugs has done, the disproportioned damage to black communities, students lives ruined, the costs are huge, and its not working. heroin is cheaper now than it...

Find themselves dealing with government bureaucracy in the most ordinary and regular ways, whether its running your payroll and having to deal with the various tax agencies you have to get records and numbers from, and its doing everything exactly the same way for a number of years, and then finding out something was wrong, and having someone come into your office to screw around with you for the space of two and a half months. its wasting 33% of your time in a fairly small company with ten empl...

And a great deal of 245 has to do with the sort of policies we pursue as a country, but some of it is structural. there are people graduating from college who are getting liberal arts degrees and dont have the sort of skills necessary to actually compete in the job market. they are not entrepreneurial enough, and its just the sort of thing thats not really being taught at most universities. john: in trying to be an entrepreneur, i find its something that makes people understand the benefits of l...

Mix of coverage at competitive premiums, and obamacare mandates this and that coverage, that interferes with private choices. private choices that give rise to better policies in absence mandates. john: thank you, out of time for questions for this segment. thank you abby and john, and if you want to keep the conversation going, heres the twitter hash tag, isflc. i dont know how you remember that, but stands for international students for liberty conference, which is where we are. let people kno...

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University," and our professors are ab biand john, here to tell students about what they should learn about economics. you cant do it all. first thing? >> first thing to learn is that intentions are not results. judge policies by results and not stated intentions. second, people in the public sector are just as self-interested and no more enlightened than people in the private sector. john: nice or vicious as everybody else. >> absolutely. john: they are doing the public good. they are different...