- ESFL Regional Conference - Istanbul
Happy Halloween! Join us for a not-so-spooky day in Istanbul, Turkey for the livestream of the 2nd annual ESFL Regional Conference. Program includes:
Keynote Speech:
Dr. Tom G. Palmer is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and director of Cato University, the Institute’s educational arm. Palmer is also the executive vice president for international programs at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, and is responsible for establishing operating programs in 14 languages and managing programs for a worldwide network of think tanks.
Speech: The Libertarian Movement: Where We Are, Where We Are Going
James W. Lark, III is a professor in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering and the Applied Mathematics program in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He has also served as a professor in the Department of Statistics and the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. In addition, he has served as Assistant to the Athletics Director for Special Projects at the University of Virginia.
Speech: The Liberal Case For Open Borders
Sven Gerst is a PhD student at the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. His research mainly focuses on matters of political and moral philosophy —in particular, Global Justice, Open Borders, and Business Ethics.
Speech: Victimless Crime and Drug Prohibition
Yunus Emre Kocabaşoğlu is a libertarian activist in Turkey. He completed his major in Hacettepe University in Ankara. He was an instructor in Netherlands at Groningen University.
- Free Association #12 — Benghazi
Sheldon and Lucy take on the weird world of Benghazi, where nothing is what it seems. What really happened in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012? Who’s really responsible?
- Free Association #9 — Limited Government
Sheldon Richman and Lucy Steigerwald, liberty extraordinaires, will grace your screen once more with another solid episode of Free Association! Tune in this week for his views on limited government.
- Sheldon Richman — Free Association #2
Join Sheldon Richman for another dose of Free Association, everyone's favorite state-delegitimizing show! He'll be joined by special guest, Lucy Steigerwald.
For more truth from Sheldon Richman, check out Free Association @ Liberty.me.
- JulieBorowski.com Launch Party!
Julie Borowski, one of the most entertaining names in liberty, is launching her new website. And she's on Liberty.me LIVE to celebrate it with Jeffrey Tucker — and you! All are welcome to attend.
Check out Julie's new blog on Liberty.me too!
- The Kennedy Autopsy
What did US officials do to John F. Kennedy's body after he was shot? Join Jacob Hornberger, President and founder of The Future of Freedom Foundation, as he explores that question — only on Liberty.me LIVE.
For more, check out his book, The Kennedy Autopsy — free to Liberty.me members for a limited time!
And for even more, check out Jacob's newest book Regime Change: The JFK Assassination.
- Sheldon Richman — Free Association #1
Welcome back to Free Association, a show that delegitimizes the state one episode at a time.
To get your regular dosage of truth from Sheldon Richman, check out Free Association @ Liberty.me.
Sheldon Richman keeps the blog Free Association and is affiliated with the Center for a Stateless Society both as chair of the trustees and as a senior fellow. You can support his blog at Patreon.
- Sheldon Richman — The Republican Push for War with Iran
Ted Cruz and the gang are on the war path again!
Hardliners in the U.S. Senate have taken another step toward thwarting detente by writing to Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei that if he and President Obama negotiate a “mere executive agreement” on Iran’s (civilian) nuclear program that is not approved by Congress, it will bind neither Obama’s successor nor a future Congress.
The condescending letter, signed by 47 of 54 Republican senators, must have Iran’s Revolutionary Guard celebrating. With enemies like these who needs friends?
Join Sheldon Richman as he delves into the motives for this move, and the history behind the US-Iranian conflict.
To get your regular dosage of truth from Sheldon Richman, check out Free Association @ Liberty.me.
Sheldon Richman keeps the blog Free Association and is affiliated with the Center for a Stateless Society both as chair of the trustees and as a senior fellow. You can support his blog at Patreon.
- Jon Stewart and America's Civic Religion with Sheldon Richman
Click here to attend if you're not a member.
The Future of Freedom Foundation presents this sobering look at the sterility of America's current crop of political satirists, with Jon Stewart as the most prominent example. In recent days, Stewart has apologized both for joking about not voting, and for calling Harry Truman a war criminal. Why the apologies? What happened to the bold statements made by George Carlin and so many others, skewering the system with truth? Join Sheldon Richman Tuesday, November 18th at 8pm EST to discuss the state of American political satire and to ask your questions!
- Author's Forum: A Dinosaur's Guide to Libertarianism by Godfrey Bloom
A book that lays bare the failings of the British political establishment and system, penned by a famously robust critic of the European Union and its politically correct tyranny.
"I have been called “a dinosaur” more times than I can remember - usually by some politically correct policy wonk who can’t be bothered to debate the issues and prefers to insult his opponents. Nothing wrong with dinosaurs. They dominated Earth for over 120 million years. Political correctness has managed 15 years so far. Classical liberalism and libertarianism is the only possible salvation for mankind, it looks to the future not the past. This book is about why we are governed or why we are governed in the hopelessly inefficient, corrupt and incompetent way we are. It contains more questions than answers yet I make no apology for that. I believe in the English speaking world in the last hundred years we have stopped asking appropriate questions, without which we can never find answers, right or wrong." - Godfrey Bloom
Join Godfrey for a discussion of his book, libertarianism, his time in the European Parliament, and more Tuesday, December 2nd at 3pm ET!
- FFF Presents: The Antimilitarist Libertarian Tradition with Sheldon Richman
The Future of Freedom Foundation presents:
It is not possible to favor both freedom and war. War goes with tyranny, despotism, and socialism, which is why the liberal tradition has been unflinching in its support of peace. Strangely, there are periods in which this truth has been forgotten or suppressed: 19th century British colonialism and 20th century American imperialism. But if you look closely at both cases, we find excellent illustrations of how you can’t be both pro-freedom and pro-war. Join Sheldon Richman for this important look at the liberty's peace-loving side Tuesday, October 21st at 8pm ET!
- The Man of the Century: Mises and His Works, Session #8
Jeffrey Tucker discusses the book that most deeply influenced him when he was first discovering the depth of the liberal tradition. It is Mises’s neglected classic Theory and History from 1954. Mises argues for his view of “methodological dualism” -- one method for natural sciences and one method for social science. The failure to see the difference, in Mises’s view, is the root cause of most of the great scientific and policy disasters of the 20th century. This book also offers a powerful critique of Marxism in all its variants. Don't miss this session with Jeffrey Tucker Thursday, November 6th at 2:30pm ET!
- A Student's Essay that Changed the World with Larry Reed
In 1785, 25-year-old Thomas Clarkson entered a Cambridge essay contest with the prompt "Is it lawful to make slaves of others against their will?" His response, and his subsequent 46-year fight against the evils of slavery truly changed the face of the Western world. Join Larry Reed to learn more about this inspiring tale and perhaps take home some inspiration of your own in the modern fight for liberty Tuesday, September 23rd at 9pm EDT!
- Virtue Ethics and Libertarianism with Roderick Long
Much is made among liberty-lovers of the divide between utilitarian and deontological approaches to liberty. Roderick Long, however, suggests a third way. He proposes a "eudaimonist" or "virtue ethics" approach, which in the tradition of Aristotle theorizes rights as interpersonal normative principles. Join Roderick as he explores this view Thursday, September 18th at 8pm EDT!
- FFF Webinar: The 100th Anniversary of the Great State Crime with Sheldon Richman
100 years ago, World War I began, claiming the lives of 16 million people, including 7 million noncombatants. With so much having been written in the last century, what's left to be said about the "Great War" at this late date? Could the men responsible for the war have wrought anything like the horrors they inflicted had they not controlled a state apparatus — an army, a navy, a compulsory revenue-collection agency, and a bureaucracy to conscript (enslave) the nation's young males? War was never inevitable. It was a product of human agency. Join Sheldon Richman for this important session, brought to you by the Future of Freedom Foundation, September 16th at 8pm EDT!
- Liberty Classics: The God of the Machine by Isabel Paterson
What is the machine that enables human progress and civilization? Capitalism, individualism, and liberty are all boldly defended in this insightful 1943 book by Isabel Patterson. Join Jeffrey Tucker to discuss one of the most influential liberty texts of all time Sunday, August 24th at 8pm EDT!
- Liberty Classics: The Law by Frederic Bastiat
"The Law" is one of the oldest, yet one of the most influential, classically liberal texts. Frederic Bastiat's works are still repeatedly cited today. Why is "The Law" still so influential and what can you learn from it? Join Jeffrey Tucker for a discussion of this book and its legacy August 17th at 8pm EDT!
- Author's Forum: FREEDOM! by Adam Kokesh
What does it mean to own yourself? What does it mean to voluntarily interact with your fellow human beings? What does it mean to be free? And does the government acknowledge your status as a self owner with rights? Adam Kokesh from Adam vs. the Man discusses his new book, FREEDOM! August 12th at 9:30 EDT!
- Author's Forum: Why Not Capitalism? by Jason Brennan
In response to the bad rap capitalism gets in the mainstream, philosopher Jason Brennan makes a stunning moral defense of the economic system. Is capitalism exploitative? Immoral? Destructive? Brennan addresses these criticisms and more.
Join Jason to discuss his book and ask your questions August 6th at 9pm EDT!
Jason Brennan (Ph.D., 2007, University of Arizona) is Assistant Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Georgetown University, where he teaches courses in ethics, political economy, moral psychology, entrepreneurship, and public policy. He was formerly Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Research, at Brown University.
He is the author of Why Not Capitalism? (Routledge Press, 2014), Compulsory Voting: For and Against, with Lisa Hill (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2012), The Ethics of Voting (Princeton University Press, 2011), and, with David Schmidtz, A Brief History of Liberty (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
He is currently writing Markets without Limits (Routledge, under contract, with Peter Jaworski), and Against Politics (Princeton University Press, under contract).
- Clarifying Libertarian Theory with Stephan Kinsella
Everyone seem to have an opinion about what the "correct" libertarianism is. What are its limits? What are the areas in which libertarians get bogged down in semantic arguments and minutiae, and what are the arguments that really matter? Stephan Kinsella believes that he has the answers, and will share them Monday, July 14th at 9pm EDT!
- Defending the Non-Aggression Principle with Walter Block
The non-aggression principle has been under attack by many libertarians as of late. Mr. Libertarian, Walter Block, argues the non-aggression principle is libertarianism itself --that the philosophy of libertarianism is about when it is appropriate to initiate the use of force. Nothing more, nothing less. Join Walter as he defends the NAP July 12th at 4pm EDT!
