Discussion of Georgia and Relations with Russia
After Vladimir Bukovsky’s outstanding presentation and an afternoon excursion to the Livadia Palace at Yalta, where Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin divided up the world and handed much of Europe over…
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A Little Empirical Research Can Avoid a World of Mistakes
Peter Leeson in the New York Times Freakonomics blog on “Democratic Dominoes.”
Vladimir Bukovsky
Vladimir Bukovsky ‘s speech to the Cato.ru Summer School is…..breath taking. His insights from his studies of the archives of the Communist Party, his personal experience, his explanations of the…
Francophone Libertarian Video
From the libertarian seminar of UnMondeLibre.org in Ifrane, Morocco. (I look forward to seeing both the editor and the business and media manager at the Mont Pelerin Society meeting in…
More Photos from the 2008 Cato.ru Summer Seminar in Crimea, Ukraine
Kiril Rogov and Andrei Illarionov listen to a student’s report on freedom in Ukraine Discussion during the coffee break, overlooking the Black Sea Students form groups of three to formulate…
Cato.ru Seminar
The 2008 Cato.ru seminar (on “Property and Freedom”) is one of the most exciting libertarian events I’ve attended in years. The students are eagerly engaged in working out problems in…
Some Photos from the 2008 Cato.ru Summer School on “Property and Freedom” in Alushta, Ukraine
Some of the students during a lecture Responding to comments and group questions after my opening talk on “Property and Freedom” Judge Stephen F. Williams lectures on the history of…
Cato.ru Seminar Going Great! (Photos to follow later)
The first full day of the Cato.ru summer seminar in Ukraine (overlooking the Black Sea) is really going wonderfully. Students from Russia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, and…
Golden(ish) Oldies
Cass Sunstein “Absolutism Redux” and “The Cost of Rights” (both on the political, economic, judicial, and ethical theories of Cass Sunstein)
Summer’s Over in Kiev…
Well, I had a good meeting last night after my very delayed flight to Kiev. I hope that we can increase our work in Ukraine. (As with my last trip…