November 3, 2009 2:12PM 

# Libertarian Movement — Just Too Big and Too Busy? 

By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) 

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Last night — a Monday night, the eve of a hotly contested gubernatorial election in Virginia — there were at least three interesting events for libertarians in the Washington area:

- Rea​son​.tv held an event to launch “[Radicals for Capitalism](http://reason.org/news/show/1008645.html),” a new series of videos celebrating Ayn Rand’s continuing influence.
- The Future of Freedom Foundation and the George Mason University Economics Society [sponsored a lecture](http://www.gmueconsociety.blogspot.com/) by Lawrence W. Reed, president of the Foundation for Economic Education, at GMU.
- And here at the Cato Institute, an overflow crowd gathered to watch a new film, [*The Soviet Story*](https://www.cato.org/events/091102screening.html)*,* which the *Economist* called “the most powerful antidote yet to the sanitisation of the past.”

It’s got to be a sign of growth and health if the libertarian movement is offering three excellent programs on one Monday night in one area. But what’s an overscheduled libertarian to do?

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