What is the relationship between ideas and social change? It’s a gigantic question that has spawned a vast literature with nothing approaching a consensus. This is for a reason. Ideas are not like physical property. They do not have to be rationed because they do not have the properties that make for economic scarcity. Their distribution does not follow a predictable, manageable, traceable production structure. What happens in some times, places, and issues does not seem to happen in others. It’s for this reason that every contribution to this debate seems partially right and partially wrong. Why is this important? What we believe about the relationship between ideas and their effects has a tremendous influence over the strategies we decide to pursue. Should an ideological movement focus on academia, mainstream media access, political elections, policy coalitions, lobbying, underground publishing, edgelordish tweets, on-the-ground activism, local agitation, global philanthropy, or what? Is one way right or another way wrong? Rothbard on the…