"Open Borders on Trial"

See you at FreedomFest 2023

FreedomFest is next week in Memphis, and I’ll be in attendance.

My main event: I’m one of four expert witnesses at “Open Borders on Trial.” It’s a surreal event: Instead of yet another immigration debate, we’re having an old-school mock trial with famed skeptic Michael Shermer as the Judge, the one and only Larry Elder as the prosecutor, and Catherine Bernard as my defense attorney. The witnesses for the prosecution are National Review’s Jim Geraghty and the Epoch Times’ Jan Jekielek. The witnesses for the defense are myself and Jacob Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation.

In an Alice-in-Wonderland twist, the expert witnesses are also the defendants! I’ve never been an expert witness before, or even attended a trial for that matter, so I’m most curious to see how this plays out. Hope to see you in attendance in Memphis on July 14 at 5:30 PM.

Earlier that morning, I’m also on the “Resurging Nationalism” panel moderated by Nick Gillespie. I’ll be sharing the stage with Norman Horn, as well as Rich Lowry, author of The Case for Nationalism. Here’s my half-minute case against nationalism.

I’ll be around from Thursday afternoon to Saturday afternoon. If you see me, please introduce yourself. And if you’d like to organize a meet-up, please email me and I’ll post an addendum.

P.S. Also happy to play games. I suspect that some of you attendees will be fellow nerds…