Jeffrey Tucker, on “defying the plan through your own digital civilization”
Douglas French, on how spreading liberty is “not just for non-profits anymore”
Jacob Huebert, on private forms of security and dispute-management, and
Stefan Molyneux, on “redefining communities of peace and learning”
We’ll also be at the Laissez-Faire Books store throughout the convention selling and signing books. So if you’re going to FreedomFest, come see us!
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Next Wednesday night, I’ll be speaking at Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communication on whether we should end the Federal Reserve and, if so, what should replace it. (My short answers: yes; the free market.)
Get the details from America’s Future Foundation, which is sponsoring the event.
On the following two Mondays, I’ll be speaking to Federalist Society chapters in Seattle and North Dakota, respectively.
On Monday, April 9, at 12:30 p.m., I’ll speak at the University of Washington School of Law on “Why Progressives (and Everyone) Should Support Economic Liberty.”
On Monday, April 16, at 12 p.m., at the University of North Dakota School of Law, I’ll debate Professor Eric E. Johnson on whether law schools should have to be accredited and lawyers should have to be licensed.
by Jacob Huebert on February 22, 2012 in Appearances
Do we need copyrights and patents? I’ll argue that we don’t in a debate sponsored by the Federalist Society at Dayton Law School on Monday, February 27, at 12:30 p.m. Taking the other side will be Professor Sam Han.
by Jacob Huebert on November 5, 2011 in Appearances
On Saturday, November 19, I’ll be speaking at the annual Freedom Seminar in Portland, Oregon. This year’s theme is “Freedom’s Future.” My lecture topics are “Is There Hope for Liberty in Our Lifetime?” and “Ideas: Are They Property?”.
I’m honored to be sharing the bill with the heroic Jacob Hornberger, president of the Future of Freedom Foundation. He’ll be speaking on “Why Protection of Civil Liberties Matters” and “Economic Liberty: Key to Freedom.”
The event will run from 9:20 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Lake Oswego, just south of Portland. Get the full details and register here.
The folks behind the Free State Project in New Hampshire have a massive event every summer called the Porcupine Freedom Festival (better known as “PorcFest“) in Lancaster, New Hampshire.
I’ll be speaking there this year on Saturday, June 25, at 2:00 p.m. on “How Not to Create a Libertarian Society.” I look forward to visiting New Hampshire for the first time and, more importantly, to meeting the Free Staters and other libertarians.
Tomorrow, Ron Paul is having a “moneybomb” fundraiser on the anniversary of the U.S. government’s prohibition of gold ownership in 1933.
At the same time, the moneybomb’s organizers are holding an internet radio marathon from 9 a.m. to midnight Eastern on the moneybomb’s official website.
I’ll be on at 3:30 p.m. with host Jason Rink. Rink’s two-hour segment will also feature the heroic Adam Kokesh at 3:00 p.m., Peter Schiff at 4:00 p.m., and Charles Goyette at 4:30 p.m.
You can also hear other great libertarians throughout the day, including Karen Kwiatowski at 10:00 a.m., Walter Block at 12:30 p.m., Ron Paul himself at 6:00 p.m., Dan McCarthy at 7:00 p.m., Butler Shaffer at 8:00 p.m., and Anthony Gregory at 10:30 p.m.
The video of my speech a the Nullify Now event in Cincinnati is now online. I talk about nullifying the PATRIOT Act, nullifying TSA tyranny, and, most importantly, nullifying the State in your own mind.
As for me, I’ll be at the Mises Circle in Chicago this weekend, and then giving a talk calling for the abolition of copyright and patents at Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, California on April 14.
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