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Ilya Somin on Game of Thrones and voter ignorance — highlights from his AMA
September 26, 2017 | Post
Professor Ilya Somin recently joined us on Reddit for an “Ask Me Anything” conversation as part of our Learn Liberty Reddit AMA Series. He answered your questions about Game of Thrones, voter ignorance, and the prospects for bipartisan reforms in the direction of liberty. Fans of Learn Liberty will recognize Professor Somin as the star of our popular video, I Can’t Breathe: […]
August reading challenge: An economist’s top 5 picks
August 1, 2017 | Post
I have a challenge for you: I’m going to share five of my favorite books and essays with you, and I’m hoping you’ll read at least one before the beginning of the semester.
Why you can’t fill a sled with Slurpee today
May 20, 2017 | Post
On this wonderful day, gleeful children and adults flock to their local 7-Elevens with cups of (almost) all shapes and sizes.
Confront, slander, reject: The anti-intellectual legacy of Karl Marx
May 5, 2017 | Post
Marx espoused confrontation and slander over careful and critical intellectual debate.
The most important part of networking
February 20, 2017 | Post
So you went to a networking event. You met a lot of new people, delivered your elevator speech a few dozen times, and came home with fistfuls of business cards. Networking accomplished, right?
8 Networking Tips for ISFLC 2017
January 30, 2017 | Post
ISLFC a perfect opportunity to get ideas for campus leadership, talk to professors and intellectuals you admire, or find a connection for a summer internship, so don’t let it go to waste. Here are some go-to tips to make the most of the weekend.
Did Trump win because of backlash against political correctness?
January 20, 2017 | Post
Perhaps, after eight years of creeping explicit and implicit censorship, Trump’s election can be seen as a broad referendum on political correctness.
Healing through decentralization
November 27, 2016 | Post
I argue that freedom of association is absolutely critical to sustaining relations of social trust across difference, even if it allows people to retreat further into their echo chambers.
“If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain,” writes Facebook acquaintance with fundamental misunderstanding of political philosophy
November 4, 2016 | Post
At 6:58pm Eastern time last night, Facebook acquaintance and sophomore sociology major Sean Stevens reported that if you don’t vote in the upcoming presidential election then you have no right to complain about the trajectory of the nation. Stevens, who bravely displays the Human Rights Campaign logo as his profile picture, went on to provide […]
What you missed: Week of 11/4
November 4, 2016 | Post
This week was the home stretch of the 2016 presidential election. Here’s some headlines you may have missed heading into the first weekend of November: The FBI announced that it found emails relating to its investigation of Hillary Clinton on scandal-plagued former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s computer. The Chicago Cubs won the World Series this week […]
John Oliver runs out of election jokes; SNL still not funny
November 3, 2016 | Post
Last night, John Oliver realized that there was no more satirical material left on the 2016 presidential election
The Society That Will Help You Bolster Your Libertarian Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading List
August 2, 2016 | Post
Do you dream of a free future? Are you looking for challenging speculative fiction that wrestles with big ideas? Are you interested in how such fiction “can promote an appreciation of the value of liberty as the prerequisite for cooperation, peace, prosperity and a just society”? If you answered yes to these questions, you should […]
Star Trek Is Far from Libertarian — Here’s Why
July 22, 2016 | Post
At least from a libertarian perspective, the otherwise appealing ideological vision of Star Trek is compromised by its commitment to socialism.
Muhammad Ali Defeated A Lot Of Opponents. He Cannot, However, Defeat The Laws Of Supply And Demand.
July 5, 2016 | Post
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared at Forbes. ESPN is reporting there’s outrage among some observers that people are scalping their “free” tickets to Ali’s memorial service in Louisville. Just as there is no such thing as a free lunch, there’s no such thing as a free ticket to a memorial service. ESPN quotes several […]
Legal and Cultural Approaches to Pluralism and Diversity
May 12, 2016 | Post
The term “pluralism” connotes both a description of our deep differences and a political response to those differences. Let’s start with pluralism as a description of our cultural reality. Our society is incredibly diverse when it comes to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, and sexuality. We have different life experiences, we live in different communities, […]