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Liberty Editors Conferences
Our Editors Conferences are beloved by speakers and attendees alike. If you haven't joined us at one of these intellectual feasts, or if you want to experience them again, now is the time! Liberty turns 20 this year, but these panels and talks are perennially informative
and fascinating. Discover the fun, camaraderie, and intellectual stimulation our conferences offer!
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1999
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. (CD: A-401, Cassette: B-401, VHS: V-401)
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. (CD: A-402, Cassette: B-402, VHS: V-402)
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. (CD: A-403, Cassette: B-403, VHS: V-403)
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. (CD: A-405, Cassette: B-405, VHS: V-405)
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! (CD: A-406, Cassette: B-406, VHS: V-406)
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. (CD: A-407, Cassette: B-407, VHS: V-407)
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. (CD: A-408, Cassette: B-408, VHS: V-408)
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. (CD: A-409, Cassette: B-409, VHS: V-409)
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. (CD: A-410, Cassette: B-410, VHS: V-410)
Contracts and the Net • The internet will reshape contract law, argues David Friedman, at the expense of judicial power. (CD: A-411, Cassette: B-411, VHS: V-411)
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. (CD: A-412, Cassette: B-412, VHS: V-412)
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. (CD: A-413, Cassette: B-413, VHS: V-413)
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. (CD: A-414, Cassette: B-414, VHS: V-414)
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. (CD: A-415, Cassette: B-415, VHS: V-415)
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. (CD: A-416, Cassette: B-416, VHS: V-416)
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! (CD: A-417, Cassette: B-417, VHS: V-417)
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. (CD: A-418, Cassette: B-418, VHS: V-418)
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. (CD: A-419, Cassette: B-419, VHS: V-419)
Juries, Justice, and the Law • Fully informed jury activist Larry Dodge explains the history and the importance of jury nullification. (CD: A-420, Cassette: B-420, VHS: V-420)
2004
Liberty: What’s Right vs. What Works • Charles Murray, David Friedman, R.W. Bradford, and David Boaz examine how we argue for liberty — and why we’re really for it. (CD: A-601, Cassette: B-601)
Anarchy vs. Limited Government • The same all-star panel of David Boaz, Charles Murray, David Friedman, and R.W. Bradford reinvigorate the debate between radically smaller government and no government at all. (CD: A-602, Cassette: B-602)
Big Government Is Bipartisan: What You Can Do About It • David Boaz looks at how both parties expand government power and trample on your rights, and explains how you can fight back. (CD: A-603, Cassette: B-603)
What’s Wrong With Libertarianism • R.W. Bradford exposes what’s wrong with libertarianism and with libertarians — from a libertarian point of view. (CD: A-604, Cassette: B-604)
Isabel Paterson and the Founding of Modern Libertarianism • Stephen Cox looks at the life and work of the political philosopher who was Ayn Rand’s mentor. (CD: A-605, Cassette: B-605)
The 2004 Election • Stephen Cox, R.W. Bradford, David Boaz, Bruce Ramsey, and Doug Casey make the case for Kerry, Bush . . . and against voting at all. (CD: A-606, Cassette: B-606)
The War in Iraq: Can It Be Justified? • John Hospers, Tim Sandefur, Bruce Ramsey, and R.W. Bradford try to untangle the confused thinking that shrouds the war in Iraq. (CD: A-607, Cassette: B-607)
Fighting the FDA and Winning • Sandy Shaw and Durk Pearson tell how they beat the FDA in their fight for free speech and better health. (CD: A-608, Cassette: B-608)
Are Americans Freer Today Than They Were 100 Years Ago? • David Boaz, Durk Pearson, Tim Sandefur, and David Friedman discover that freedom is a lot more complex than how much we are taxed. (CD: A-609, Cassette: B-609)
Why Drugs Haven’t Been Legalized • Alan Bock, David Friedman, R.W. Bradford, and Andy von Sonn explore why, with all the evidence that marijuana is substantially less harmful than alcohol and that its criminalization does great harm, possession of marijuana is still a criminal offense. (CD: A-610, Cassette: B-610)
Ayn Rand’s Novels and the Critics • Many fans of Ayn Rand think her books were mostly ignored by reviewers. Not so, David Boaz discovers. (CD: A-611, Cassette: B-611)
Liberty in Film • Jo Ann Skousen, Doug Casey, Stephen Cox, R.W. Bradford, and John Hospers explore what makes a good libertarian film, and offer a few of their favorites, including some very surprising choices. (CD: A-612, Cassette: B-612)
Garet Garrett and the Old Right Vision of Empire • Bruce Ramsey takes a close look at a dynamic critic of the New Deal and the rise of the American Empire. (CD: A-613, Cassette: B-613)
2006
Libertarianism and Religion • Jo Ann Skousen, Charles Murray, David Friedman, and Stephen Cox discuss the nuanced and sometimes tempestuous relationship between religion and the freedom movement. (CD: A-102, Cassette: B-102)
Liberty in Film • In this installment of a beloved, traditional Liberty conference panel, Jo Ann Skousen, Jack Pugsley, Tim Slagle, and Gary Jason talk about why film is important to libertarians, and which films recommend themselves to libertarians. (CD: A-103, Cassette: B-103)
Ben Franklin (Warts and All) Takes On His Libertarian Critics • Franklin was one of America’s greatest champions of liberty, says Mark Skousen, despite what many libertarians think. (CD: A-104, Cassette: B-104)
The Best Laid Plans • Randal O’Toole surveys the damage wrought by the imposition of urban planners’ morality on construction, traffic, and transit. (CD: A-106, Cassette: B-106)
What’s With the Cost of Gas? • Government conspiracy, market forces, or market failure: what really causes changes in consumer gas prices? Mark Skousen, Randal O’Toole, and Bob Beers look for an answer. (CD: A-107, Cassette: B-107)
Taxes Can Be Cut! • Bob Beers, Jack Pugsley, and Mark Skousen look for ways to cut taxes and keep them low. (CD: A-108, Cassette: B-108)
Keynote speech • David Friedman discusses how changes in technology will affect government power over the individual — and whether the effect will be for better or worse. (CD only: A-109)
How to Reform the Drug Laws • Randy Barnett, Patrick Killen, and David Friedman relate their work on drug-law reform and their ideas for bringing about change. (CD: A-110, Cassette: B-110) Ø
In Our Hands • Charles Murray describes his controversial plan to replace all wealth-transfer programs with one yearly payment to citizens 21 and over. (CD: A-111, Cassette: B-111)
Should Libertarians Ally With Conservatives? • Bruce Ramsey, Tim Slagle, Stephen Cox, and David Friedman consider this perennial question. (CD: A-112, Cassette: B-112)
Libertarians and the Constitution: A Love-Hate Relationship • Randy Barnett tells how the writings of a 19th-century anarchist convinced him the Constitution was illegitimate — and what changed his mind. (CD: A-113, Cassette: B-113)
The Ideal Communist City • Randal O’Toole compares the means and ends of Communist planning with those of “smart growth.” (CD: A-114, Cassette: B-114)
Libertarian Comedy • Tim Slagle brings down the house at dinner Saturday evening! (CD: A-115, Cassette: B-115)
What is the Optimal Size of Government? • Mark Skousen searches for the sweet spot between anarchy and statism. (CD: A-116, Cassette: B-116)
The Future of Liberty • What are the prospects for freedom? David Friedman, Jack Pugsley, Mark Skousen, Durk Pearson, and Sandy Shaw offer different perspectives in this panel, consistently one of the most popular at our conferences. (CD: A-117, Cassette: B-117)
Tribute to R.W. Bradford • Friends and family of Liberty’s founding editor share their memories of one of the great men of the libertarian movement. (CD only: A-118)
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