[Editor's Note: The following is a guest post by 2013 International Students For Liberty Conference took place February 15-17 in Washington, DC. Started in 2008 by a bunch of libertarian college students frustrated by the lack of a real cohesive [...]
Got plans for the weekend of February 15-17? Going to be in the DC area?
Then be sure to head on over to the 2013 International Students for Liberty conference! Lots of highlights, including a keynote address by John Mackey, breakout sessions sponsored by IHS, FEE, Cato, the Independent [...]
Beginning December 10th, in conjunction with the awesome Students for Liberty (old people like it too!), I’m going to be leading an online reading group on Herbert Spencer’s Social Statics. It’s going to be a small group – [...]
A lot of people think that libertarianism is defined by something like the “Non-Aggression Principle.” To be a libertarian, they think, is to believe that it’s always wrong to initiate physical force. And that’s all there is to it.
This, essentially, is Ayn Rand’s view about the fundamental principle of morality. [...]
After the Welfare State
The welfare state is a relatively recent historical phenomenon. How did individuals and societies meet the needs of the poor before its emergence? And how might they deal with those needs in the future, if the welfare state should fall?
Those questions are explored in a new book, After the [...]
Several of us have sung the praises of Students for Liberty in this space and they are indeed an amazing group of young people who will one day lead this movement. In recognition of that generational shift, Sarah Skwire, Aeon Skoble, Lynne Kiesling and I, along with the direction of Sarah’s husband Darren [...]
Perhaps they’re not as salient to those of you who don’t spend your days on college campuses, but Students for Liberty is pretty freakin’ amazing. I’ve been watching small libertarian groups come and go on various college campuses for about the last 15 years now, and I have never seen (or read [...]
This Wednesday, I’ll be giving a web-based lecture to Students for Liberty on the topic of “Libertarianism and the Left.” The talk is aimed at an audience of college-aged, libertarian activists, but registration is open to everyone. You can get more information and a link to register here.
The talk itself will [...]
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