IS THE FREE STATE PROJECT A REVOLUTIONARY PLAN OR A PIPE DREAM?
It is not often that libertarians are enough of a threat to anyone elses interests that they generate protests. But that is what has been happening in New Hampshire lately. In June, 200 residents showed up at a heated town meeting in tiny Grafton township to challenge a trio of libertarian activists they feared were trying to conquer their community. Less than a week later, a squad of protesters picketed a fund-raising dinner in Plymouth, featuring Republican Governor Craig Benson, sponsored by the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance. Both protests were triggered by the Free State Project, or FSP, a recently hatched plan for libertarians to roll back the government of New Hampshire and thus create a flagship for a freer America. The FSP is the brainchild of a 27-year-old political science instructor named Jason Sorens. The Yale lecturers idea is both simple and grandiose: Given libertarians eternal lack of political traction as a thinly spread minority, their most realistic chance to wield
