My friend and colleague Franklin Cudjoe, the leader of the IMANI think tank in Ghana and editor of the joint IMANI/Cato project AfricanLiberty.org, takes on the appointment of George Clooney as a “peace ambassador” in Africa in a debate with a “Friend of the Earth.” The debate is in the last quarter of this BBC segment.
UPDATE: It turns out that the link expired and I cannot now find the item on the BBC website. Franklin made some very good points. (I have an audio file made from a microphone held up to the radio, but the quality is poor and I don’t know how to post such a file. I am hoping to help Franklin and his colleagues get some better recording equipment so that they can post such items.)
Dr. Palmer,
I couldn’t find that segment at all.
I read the IMANI site. Does the Cato Institute agree with this? “. . . Ayn Rand, one of the finest contributors to modern philosophy of freedom.”
I’m new here and am trying to discover more about your position on human rights.
Thank you.
I’m sorry about the link. It seems that it expired.
I cannot speak for the Cato Institute, but the Institute has sponsored some programs on Ayn Rand. Go to http://www.cato.org and use the search engine for “Ayn Rand.”
I agree that she made significant contributions to the modern philosophy of freedom, although I would not count myself as primarily inspired by her or an advocate of the philosophical system she called “objectivism.”