Might be interesting…

November 6, 2009

My talk to the Oxford University Libertarian Society on “Anarchism, Limited Government, and Liberalism: A Modest Case for Sacking the State”:

Tom Palmer – “Anarchism, Limited Government & Liberalism: A Modest Case for Sacking the State” from oxford libertarian on Vimeo.
(I had not had a chance to listen to it before, but I think it [...]

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Cyber Unity?

November 5, 2009

Mirsulzhan Namazaliev on the proposal to have URLs in alphabets other than Latin: “Attack of the alphabets: will Cyber-Cyrillic threaten global online unity?“

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And that…is Acting!

November 4, 2009

Hat tip: Jude

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Some Old Pics from Berlin

November 4, 2009

I have been working with colleagues on some videos and other work on the Fall of the Berlin Wall (to be celebrated November 9 at the Atlas Freedom Dinner), and I remembered I had some old photos, which I rummaged around and found and then scanned. I was in West and East Berlin a [...]

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The Passing of a Wonderful and Elegant Lady

November 4, 2009

I did not know her as well as some of my colleagues, but on the few occasions that our paths did cross, I was impressed by her mixture of strength of character and elegance. My colleague Ian Vasquez has a note on the death of Nien Cheng.

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Free to Choose….in Russian

November 4, 2009

Thanks to a lot of hard work from friends in Russia…..Free to Choose.

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Arab Libertarianism on the Move

November 4, 2009

I have been busy lately with a lot of projects (I’m involved in launching new libertarian ventures in Vietnamese, Chinese, and Urdu, for example, as well as raising funds and working on other projects), so I have neglected posting some wonderful pics from projects my colleagues have been organizing. Here’s a nice shot from [...]

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Cool Events

November 3, 2009

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 out the Freedom Seminar in Portland, November 14, with Larry Reed and Sheldon Richman.

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New Hindi Essay Contest

November 3, 2009

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 for Civil Society and the Atlas Global Initiative!

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Norberg on the Financial Crisis…. GREAT!!

November 1, 2009

Among the many books I read during my recent travels, I strongly recommend Johan Norberg’s truly excellent diagnosis of (and prescriptions for) the financial crisis: Financial Fiasco: How America’s Infatuation with Homeownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis. It’s far better than the other works I’ve read, not only because Norberg is a [...]

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Freedom on the Road … to Rio!

November 1, 2009

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 cities. More details here.
(Anyone who cares to donate to support such events, drop me a note at tom.palmer@atlasnetwork.org!)

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Mark Your Calendar

November 1, 2009

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”

October 31, 2009

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 open society around the world has come under severe attack including in the United States, going back to at least Franklin Roosevelt’s administration and continuing more [...]

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Landsburg!

October 29, 2009

The inimitable Steven Landsburg has a cool new blog on “The Big Questions,” which goes along with his new book, called, um…The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics.

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An Engaging and Interesting Exchange

October 28, 2009

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. Heller’s Ayn Rand and the World She Made and Jennifer Burns’s Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, followed by dinner with [...]

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My talk in Oxford on “Anarchism, Limited Government, and Liberalism: A Modest Case for Sacking the State”

October 27, 2009

Tom Palmer – “Anarchism, Limited Government & Liberalism: A Modest Case for Sacking the State” from oxford libertarian on Vimeo.
It was a rather informal chat that covered a number of topics in history, sociology, political science, economics, and moral theory. I haven’t had a chance to watch through it, but I had nightmares [...]

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Don’t Say We Weren’t Warned….

October 22, 2009

U.S. Cutting Pay for Bailed Out Company Executives

Hat Tip: Ken

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Off to Schloss Ziethen

October 22, 2009

I gave my talk today at the Adam Smith conference. I’ve had a chance to learn a good deal about the historical context of Smith’s thought, its implications, and much more. Now I’m at the Schloss Ziethen in Brandenburg for a Liberty Fund conference, with a number of learned experts, from whom I [...]

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Off to Berlin

October 20, 2009

The talk in Oxford was fun. Really smart students and a delightful conversation.
Now to something deadly serious:
I hope that people will visit the new Free Kareem website and take note of how urgent the situation is for him. It is painful to think of his suffering for merely writing some blog posts. [...]

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On to London, Oxford, and Berlin….

October 18, 2009

I am preparing to leave wonderful Austria, feeling much better due to having finally gone to an Apotheke last night for the evil gut bugs I got in Cairo (”Norita” pills of medicinal coal, of all things, seem to have been very helpful). I will miss Vienna, but I look forward to seeing friends [...]

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