It would have been in June or July of 2009. I'd have to trawl through old Facebook photos to get the exact date. But it was on the second to last day of the week-long Mises University summer program. I had heard folks like Robert Murphy, Tom Woods, and HH Hoppe speak all week, and was drifting farther and farther from my belief in minarchism. But I think it was during a small breakout session with a young economist named Art Carden that I had my revelatory jolt. I can't even remember now what his talk was about, except that during it he really drilled down on how free markets disincentivize bigotry. I left that event a newly-minted anarchist, and I've never looked back.
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