Liberty in our Lifetime: A Conversation with Jason Sorens

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S02E04 -

A discussion with the founder of the Free State Project, Jason Sorens.

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Jason Sorens

Jason Sorens is Senior Research Faculty at AIER. He was formerly the director of the Center for Ethics in Society at Saint Anselm College, and founded the Free State Project. Sorens is the author of Secessionism: Identity, Interest, and Strategy (2012), and co-​author (with William Ruger) of the biennially-​revised Freedom in the 50 States.

Sorens’s research is focused on housing policy and land-​use regulation, U.S. state politics, fiscal federalism, and movements for regional autonomy and independence around the world. He has taught at Yale, Dartmouth, and the University at Buffalo. He lives in Amherst, New Hampshire.

Jonathan Fortier

Jonathan Fortier is the director of Lib​er​tar​i​an​ism​.org. Over the past 25 years he has worked to promote the principles of a free society with many organizations, including Liberty Fund, the Institute for Humane Studies, and the Fraser Institute. He earned his MPhil and his doctorate at the University of Oxford.

In this episode, Jonathan Fortier talks with Jason Sorens, Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute of Economic Research and Founder of the Free State Project. They discuss the origins and purposes of the Free State Project, the question of secession, the lessons that other American states might learn from the FSP, analogues with other secessionist movements around the world, and then turn to a discussion of the Cato-​supported publication, “Freedom in the 50 States.”

Jason Sorens link to AIER: https://​www​.aier​.org/​p​e​o​p​l​e​/​j​a​s​o​n​-​s​o​rens/

The Free State Project: https://​www​.fsp​.org/

Jason Sorens CV: https://​www​.statepol​i​cyin​dex​.com/​w​p​-​c​o​n​t​e​n​t​/​u​p​l​o​a​d​s​/​2​0​2​2​/​0​7​/​c​v​_​j​p​s.pdf

Freedom in the 50 States: https://​www​.free​dominthe50s​tates​.org/