Those of you who have been following the various Facebook discussions about young libertarians and social media, cranky old libertarians telling them to get off their lawn, and the importance of ideas and good arguments/evidence, might enjoy this Freeman piece of mine that just appeared.

“That young libertarians want to talk about issues that previous generations didn’t, or make up lists of the top 20 hottest libertarian women and men, doesn’t mean that the barbarians are at the gate. Focusing on the increasing quantity of weak libertarian writing out there can easily lead us to ignore the unseen: the simultaneous increase in high-quality work. Rather than complaining about silly lists on social media and telling the kids to get off our lawn, we old folks should let the kids do what kids have always done—push the boundaries set by the previous generation. We should, however, also be holding them to the highest standards of argumentation and evidence.”