Libertarian Miscellany


Cool Events

The Cato book forum on the two fascinating new Ayn Rand biographies will be on Book TV on Sunday, November 8. If you’re in Oregon (or just the Northwest), check…

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New Hindi Essay Contest

For libertarians who read Hindi, that is! Available at Azadi.me. (And if you’ve ever wanted to read about Ayn Rand in Hindi, here you are.) A project of the Centre…

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Freedom on the Road … to Rio!

My OrdemLivre.org colleagues Diogo Costa, Bruno Garschagen, Gabriel Gallo, Lucas Mafaldo, and Rodrigo Constantino just finished their gigantic tour through Brazil, with seminars and programs at 17 universities in 13…

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Mark Your Calendar

Cato University will be held July 25-30 in 2010 at the Rancho Bernardo Inn near San Diego, California. See ya there!

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Alberto Benegas-Lynch, Jr. on “Realizing Freedom”

I was quite pleased to find today this review of my book Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice by the distinguished Argentine economist Alberto Benegas-Lynch: In our time, the…

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An Engaging and Interesting Exchange

I attended a book forum at the Cato Institute on The Life and Impact of Ayn Rand that featured the authors of two new biographies of Ayn Rand, Anne C….

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Don’t Say We Weren’t Warned….

U.S. Cutting Pay for Bailed Out Company Executives Hat Tip: Ken

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Go, Georgia, Go! Limit the State!

EurasiaNet.org: GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI WANTS TBILISI TO BECOME “GOVERNMENT-LITE” Ilia Chavchavadze The Georgian leader used a reference to a national cultural icon, the revered 19th century novelist Ilia Chavchavadze, to sway…

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My Interview with Reason.TV

Talking about Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice (available at a deep discount from Amazon.com and at a sliiiightly deeper discount from Laissez Faire Books).

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Idea Night in Bishkek

The Central Asian Free Market Institute organized a really impressive and brilliantly coordinated program last night in Bishkek, “Idea Night.” (They expected 100 and got well over 150 [I counted…

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