Libertarian Miscellany


Steve Chapman on Ayn Rand

Steve Chapman, one of the most talented libertarian commentators writing today, had an insightful column on Ayn Rand in his paper, the Chicago Tribune.

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Anne Applebaum on Memory

The outsanding Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning and truly excellent book Gulag: A History, has hit another home run with today’s column on the…

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Weak Critique of Property

Hernando de Soto has done more than any other person in recent years to increase our understanding of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. The Other Path…

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Speaking at Duke

I’ll be speaking Friday night and Saturday afternoon (February 4 and 5) at a “Free Your Mind” conference at Duke University, sponsored by Political Science Department Chairman Michael Munger and…

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Drive-by Cigarette Slayings, Anyone?

The little Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has banned smoking. Some wonder whether that will set off a trend. If it does, expect cigarette smuggling to skyrocket, tobacco-traficantes to tear Latin…

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Judicial Writing Contest

If you’re enrolled in a law school or other graduate school program in the U.S., check out the Pacific Legal Foundation “Judicial Awareness Writing Competition.” Participants can write on one…

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Freedom Communications Newspapers

College students or recent graduates who are interested in careers in journalism and who are committed to the values of liberty and peace should apply for an IHS Journalism Internship….

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It May All Be Greek to You…

Socrates Metaxas, to whom I had the pleasure of being introduced by my friend Panagiotis Evangelopoulos when I was in Vienna after New Year’s, translated my little interview in Die…

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My Interview on Liberalism in Die Presse, Austria’s premier quality paper

My interview (“The Welfare State is not Sustainable”) with Gerhard Meszaros of Die Presse (formerly Die Neue Freie Presse) has appeared. Those who read German may find it and the…

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My Interview on Liberalism in Die Presse, Austria’s premier quality paper

My interview (“The Welfare State is not Sustainable”) with Gerhard Meszaros of Die Presse (formerly Die Neue Freie Presse) has appeared. Those who read German may find it and the…

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