Libertarian ideas are spreading on campus. And one of their ambassadors is Belle Knox, a 19-year-old Duke student who works in the X-rated film industry. Earlier this week she spoke at UNC-Chapel Hill about libertarianism, feminism, and the high cost of college.
Known at Duke as Miriam Weeks, Knox claims that she became a pornographic actress because of the high cost of tuition at Duke. With her new job, she’s able to cover her expenses (even though she lost a partial scholarship). Harry Painter writes about the Knox’s talk on the Pope Center site, noting,
It was refreshing to see someone at the left-liberal Chapel Hill talk about an unusual topic—free markets—to more than 100 people, many of whom had undoubtedly been drawn there because of her notoriety as an X-rated film actress.
And she seems to be a rather charming young woman.