Public Speaking Checklist
Below is a checklist I produced for the participants in the Cato University Fall 2004 Seminar, “The Art of Persuasion: Skills for Everyone,” held at the ChÃ?Â??Ã?Â?Ã?¢teau Frontenac, Quebec City,…
Libertarian Miscellany
Public Speaking
I’m about to give a talk at the current Cato University in Quebec on “The Art of Persuasion” (which is going very well so far) on public speaking. Talking about…
Icelanders Visit Cato and D.C.
I recently had the pleasure of welcoming a group of Icelandic libertarians involved in the youth group of the Independence Party to the Cato Institute, to discuss with them what…
Mandatory Manditoriness
All taxicabs in the District of Columbia carry signs that read: ———- ATTENTION District of Columbia law requires mandatory use of seat belts. There is a $50 fine for noncompliance….
Voter Ignorance and Democracy
On Friday I participated in a small seminar with a group of colleagues and law professor Ilya Somin, author of a new Cato study, “When Ignorance Isn’t Bliss: How Political…
Austrian Economics Done Well (for non-Cultists)
Everybody who’s interested in the insights of the “Austrian School” of economic thought should be gratified that those insights are being put to work enriching our knowledge of economic processes…
A Habsburg Recognized At Last!
The last Habsburg Emperor has been declared blessed. According to the Catholic News Agency, VATICAN CITY, Vatican, December 22 2003 (CNA) – Last Saturday, Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, President of…
Cafe Hayek
Don Boudreaux has a short posting on l’Affaire Hoppe. (It’s on the quite educational site that he and Russell Roberts run, www.cafehayek.com.) And for some of those who posted comments…
Rhetoric and Liberty
The upcoming Cato University seminar on “The Art of Persuasion: Skills for Everyone” in Quebec is going to be a lot of fun. I hope that others will advertise it,…
An Immigration Policy that Would Exclude Its Author
It’s remarkable to find someone so lacking in awareness of self, or in the ability to perceive himself as others might perceive him, that he would announce an immigration policy…