Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane turns 81 today, which is a good time to talk about him and how he has helped to shape how we think, view policy, and ideally how we will vote in the future. There’s got to be something better than the two-party system we presently endure.
Trite, “know your customer” aphorisms have never informed Crane’s actions. He was not infrequently told by people inside and outside the organization that if Cato would just align with the Republicans, and shed its non-interventionist stance on military matters, that the money would flow in. These people clearly didn’t get Crane. Asking him to compromise his principles was like asking Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to boost sales by shedding the elegant qualities of Apple devices in favor of Windows and the PCs most associated with the latter. Not a chance. Crane’s libertarianism wasn’t nor is it a choice as much as it’s a state of mind.
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