Speech / Panel Order
The 1999 Liberty Group • Bill Bradford, Tim Slagle, Fred Smith, Durk Pearson, and Alan Bock presciently analyze the political madhouse in 1999 and slaughter sacred cows with abandon. A fast-paced journey of libertarian punditry exploring the issues of the day.
How Environmental Regulation Prevents People From Protecting the Environment • Environmental economist Richard Stroup explains how iron-fisted regulators provide powerful incentives against private landowners caring for the environment.
The U.S. Forest Service: America’s Experiment in Soviet Socialism • Randal O’Toole tells a sad tale of excessive road building, clearcutting, and the strangling effects of Soviet-style centralized decisionmaking.
Environmental Religion in the Schools • Author Jane Shaw explores how schools indoctrinate children in the New Religion of Mother Earth. (CD: A-404, Cassette: B-404, VHS: V-404)
The Liberty Privacy Panel • R.W. Bradford, Fred Smith, David Friedman, and Doug Casey explore the privacy issues of the 21st century.
Advancing Liberty in the Courts • Washington state Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders explains how libertarians get more bang for their buck by supporting judicial candidates. You’ll hear how one libertarian justice can make a huge difference!
A Libertarian in Congress • Congressman Ron Paul on the art of building coalitions. Learn how laws on immigration, welfare reform, and health care are shredding your privacy.
Does the Libertarian Party have a Future? • R.W. Bradford makes a powerful case that the LP is failing to advance freedom, and suggests a controversial new approach that could lead to a political breakthrough.
Al Gore’s War on Freedom and Mobility • Al Gore hates the internal combustion engine. If he gets his way, American’s cities will look a lot more like the cities of communist Europe, says Randal O’Toole.
Selling Liberty in an Illiberal World • Fred Smith offers a revolutionary approach to spreading libertarian ideas and explains how to frame issues for maximum appeal.
Contracts and the Net • The internet will reshape contract law, argues David Friedman, at the expense of judicial power.
How to Write Op-Eds and Get Them Published • Professional journalists Jane Shaw, Alan Bock, and Bruce Ramsey tell how to write opinion pieces that will see print. Hear the one phrase that is taboo at a major newspaper.
What Does Economics Have to Do With the Law, and What Do Both Have to Do With Libertarianism? • David Friedman explores how economics and law relate to each other and to libertarianism.
Urban Sprawl, Liberty, and the State • Learn why environmentalists want you caged in cities, and how they plan to do it — with Jane Shaw, Richard Stroup, Fred Smith, and Randal O’Toole.
My Dinner With James Madison • Scott Reid views modern America through the eyes of a Founding Father. Our Madison discusses some little-known alternatives at the Constitutional Convention, and why they would have been better for freedom.
The New Liberty and the Old • R.W. Bradford explains how fundamental changes are reshaping the libertarian movement, and forthrightly takes on the advocates of the non-aggression imperative.
Using the First Amendment to Smash the State • Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw tell how they’ve used the First Amendment to wage total war against the government. Learn how they brought the FDA to its knees!
Making Terror Your Friend • In a world overrun with authoritarian creeps, Doug Casey highlights the attitudes and techniques that set him apart from the controlled masses.
End the Drug War or Forget About Freedom • Alan Bock journeys to the heart of darkness in America’s failed effort at drug prohibition. The casualties of the war, says Bock, are a lot of harmless people and your civil rights.
Juries, Justice, and the Law • Fully informed jury activist Larry Dodge explains the history and the importance of jury nullification.
The Complete 1999 Liberty Editors Conference • Full set of all the above talks and panels!
