The Debate Begins — What the Heck Is Liberty?
Cato Unbound is hosting a debate that is going to start hotting up tomorrow. David Schmidtz and Jason Brennan started with an excerpt from their new book A Brief History…
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What Is Liberty?
My response (“Liberty is Liberty“) to the provocative essay (“Conceptions of Freedom“) by David Schmidtz and Jason Brennan is now online. I’m mostly through their very interesting (not in the…
A Discussion of Liberty, “Negative” and “Positive”
The new Cato Unbound is focused on the nature of liberty. The lead essay (“The Big Myth About Liberty“) by David Schmidtz and Jason Brennan is quite provocative. My response…
Enduring Democracy and Limited Government
I just found (thanks to snooping around some emails) the text of the Julian L. Simon Memoral Lecture I gave in 2009 in New Delhi on “Democracy and Limited Government:…
Latin America: A Brighter Future for Colombia Liberty, and Power Failure for Venezuelan Dictatorship?, OR, Enduring Democracy and Limited Government
The Colombian Constitutional Court has put a stop to the principle of “President for Life” (BBC: “Colombian judges deny Alvaro Uribe third term poll“) A Power Failure for Chavez (BBC:…
Revival of a Great Classical Liberal Journal: The Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines
Thanks to the good work of Pierre Garello and Philippe Maitre, a great journal lives again. (Click on the image to the left for more details.)
Right to Carry Case in Today’s Washington Post
Yours truly in today’s Washington Post: “Plaintiff in handgun case is suing D.C. for right carry firearms in public” It was a good chance to head out to the shooting…
End of Life Choices
Some find this a difficult topic to discuss, but it’s going to happen to all of us (well, probably), so it’s childish to avoid it. Yes, I’m discussing death. Jamie…
Movie Stories and Collective Property
David Boaz and John Locke on the rights of the Na’vi: “Collective Property Rights in Avatar?” (Note: I haven’t seen the movie, but it’s not necessary to understand the issues…
Realizing Freedom Reviewed in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The FAZ, one of the most influential newspapers in Europe, reviewed my book Realizing Freedom and Detmar Doering’s very good Traktat über die Freiheit. The reviewer, Professor Michael Zöller, is…