I had some great meetings today with a very high-powered group of Pakistani academics and intellectuals. We discussed public opinion and the formation of “intellectual capital” for free and prosperous societies. (I was quite interested to learn of the impact that Karl Popper had on some of the leading Pakistani classical liberals; that’s a comment I’ve also heard in China. My favorite Popper book, which our friends in China and Pakistan also endorse and which helped them to shrug off the Marxist philosophy that was dominant for so long, is The Poverty of Historicism.) I’ve got more meetings today, including to plan for the launch of an Urdu-language libertarian project, Hum-Azad.org, which should be launched in about a month. I’ll be going on to another city in Pakistan soon, for another series of meetings, then off to Afghanistan.
Bye for now,
Tom G. Palmer