Robby Soave is an award-winning American journalist based in Washington, D.C. He is an editor at Reason. He enjoys writing about college news, education policy, criminal justice reform, and television. Soave has penned articles for The New York Times, New York Post, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, The Orange County Register, and The Detroit News. In 2016, Forbes named him to the 2016 "30 Under 30" list in the category of law and policy. He won a 2015 Southern California Journalism Award for his commentary on Rolling Stone's investigative reporting on sexual assault at the University of Virginia in which he was skeptical on the subject. In 2016, Soave won the Alumnus of the Year Award at the International Students for Liberty Conference. He was also appointed to the D.C. Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Soave is a 2017-2018 Novak Fellow at The Fund for American Studies. He appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, and syndicated radio program.
Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:
THE LIBERTARIAN
At college he was cruelly isolated
His ideologies set him alone
Republicans had fun and the best parties
While the alt-left ran the place to feel like home
All the were on the edges
With him in the middle
It was only years later
That he found his tribe
A group who's values
He recognised
They formed a circle
With him in the middle
He's a libertarian
And been set free
He says it loud, he sings it proud
"At last I've found my crowd
I'm a libertarian
And I belong
I'm coming up, I'm coming clean
This is what I believe
Yes to giving all a voice
Yes to more freedom of choice
Yes to work, deregulation
Yes to peace with other nations
Yes to beauracratic reduction
Yes to the Virtue of Production
Yes autonomy, less authority
Yes to freedom's our priority
I'm a libertarian
The third way
Two parties is no choice
When we all need to have a voice
Libertarians
Become free
I'm coming up, I'm coming clean
This is what I believe
Yes to giving all a voice
Yes to more freedom of choice
Yes to work, deregulation
Yes to peace with other nations
Yes to beauracratic reduction
Yes to the Virtue of Production
Yes autonomy, less authority
Yes to freedom's our priority
2) HELICOPTER PARENTS
Helicopter parents
Bred generation Z to be
Fearful of most everything
Unconsciously
Helicopter parents
Lack basic bravery
Onto unsuspecting offspring they load
Their anxieties
Helicopter parents
The media's to blame
In their rush to ratings they pushed
Kidnapping claims
Helicopter parents
Were arrested if they didn't
Provide a home environment that was
Safety sufficient
The breakfast table
Bolstered the fable
Abduction from strangers
An everpresent danger
Who's bright idea was it
To breed the fear of it
Missing kids
On milk cartons
All of their descendants have
Panic in their veins
At the slightest provocation they feel
Emotional pain
These kids are adolescents at
University
And even Halloween costumes cause them
Anxiety
They're on anti-depressants
Cos the pressure is immense
Free speech needs to be constrained for
Their self-defence
Cos of their suppressants they need
Safety at all costs
They're asking to be treated in the
Way that they grew up
The breakfast table
Bolstered the fable
Abduction from strangers
An everpresent danger
Who's bright idea - was it
To breed the fear - of it
With missing kids
On milk cartons