Kakha Bendukidze is chairing a really brilliant set of student group reports and discussions on topics such as monopoly and antitrust, intellectual property, markets for narcotics, privatization, public goods, and so on. I’ve known him as a successful businessman, a principled and tireless reformer for liberty, and a great conversationalist, but until this seminar I had no idea that he is a truly brilliant teacher. I don’t know that I have ever seen anyone better at getting people to think through hard problems. (Among his techiques is holding some soft plastic balls in his hand and then throwing them at students; whomever he hits or whoever catches one has to answer any question or solve any problem he throws at them, followed by his comedic commentaries. I just got hit on the question of the definition of monopoly.) Among the points he has made very well is that there are no “libertarian arguments” and “non-libertarian arguments”: there are good arguments and bad arguments and he is a libertarian because he thinks that good arguments support liberty.