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...year later, a new organization called the Harvard Libertarian Forum (HLF) was up and running. This was thanks in part to the savvy organizational skills of now-President Harris and Vice President John M. Sheffield ’09, but was also the result of a wave of student interest. While the club has only a few die-hard members, according to Harris, the Forum has been steadily growing since its founding and currently boasts a mailing list of about one hundred people...
...Sheffield remembers a job interview in which his political leanings were questioned. When Sheffield explained his liberatarian views, his employer responded by saying, “I thought libertarians were all gun-toting crazies from Texas...
...libertarian philosophy before he “even knew the name,” learned at a very early age how and when he could win his political battles. Which is probably a good thing, as even the Libertarian Forum’s two major officers (Harris and Sheffield) disagree on significant aspects of libertarianism...
...part, Sheffield describes himself in a singsong voice as “a libertarian in apostasy with a healthy appreciation for Marx.” By this, Sheffield means that he is opposed to the government regulating the individual rights and welfare of the people, but he definitely does not support the typically libertarian view point that people are responsible for their own well-being. Sheffield calls this the “self-ownership axiom,” but he adamantly believes that the way to raise people out of economic despondency is not through redistribution, but through work...
...professor Jerry R. Green, philosophy professor Edward J. Hall, history professor Evelyn B. Higginbotham, government professor Jennifer L. Hochschild, natural history professor Andrew H. Knoll, molecular genetics professor Andrew W. Murray, and engineering and applied mathematics professor Howard A. Stone. The student members of the committee are John M. Sheffield II ’09, Alexander “Zander” N. Li ’08, and Alex N. Chase-Levenson ’08. —Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Johannah S. Cornblatt...