Agoraphilia

My last lecture, on "Living Lives that Respect Liberty," looms. As I did with my prior two lectures, I'd like to offer supple...

I’m usually very optimistic about new technologies, but I’m not looking forward to this: automatic toilet paper dispensers . Those damnabl...

Glen doing his imitation of someone getting a colonoscopy. Think Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally meets Curly from The Three Stooges. (Oh y...

Tom is discussing various methods of interpreting the Constitution. The first two are original intent (what was in the heads of the Founder...

Please allow me to offer some supplementary materials for my upcoming talk, "Writing, Reading, and Respecting a Constitution." I...

As Glen said, John has just given a terrific talk on women and industrialization. There's no better feeling than being "lit on fi...

John Majewski is now presenting on the Industrial Revolution. We haven't blogged much on John's lectures so far, mainly (I think) b...

For participants: Here is the list of readings for the discussion groups on Wednesday, along with links to online versions of some reading...

Okay, here's the PowerPoint presentation they've been talking about. Best viewed in slide show to see the animations.

Okay, now Glen has REALLY done it. He's giving a terrific lecture on market failure and government failure, but.... in the background, ...

Glen just started his presentation by displaying a PowerPoint slide of the title. He didn't use PowerPoint in his first presentation, s...

We just realized that Glen, John Majewski, and I all use the same wallpaper on our laptops - the built-in "red moon desert" one in...

Now Tom is up, describing the origins and nature of law. Tom says (correctly) that we get law from many different sources, and he suggests ...

While the students are discussing, Tom's warming up the guitar for the world premiere of Monster . He's just finished about 40 minut...

I'm slated to next give a lecture on "The Origins and Nature of Law." I can hardly do justice to so vast a topic in one brief...

Glen's at it again. He started his talk on the "Economic Way of Thinking" with a discussion of why it's understandable th...

Jan asks, "Why do people recognize rights?" He offers three possible answers: 1) People have an innate moral tendency or capacit...

Jan has just declared that he no longer agrees with utilitarianism, though “some misguided people still do.” I am one of those misguided so...

The first lecture is usually an overview of central philosophical issues in libertarian thought. Jan Narveson is currently walking us throu...

For the next week, co-blogger Tom and I will be faculty members at the Liberty & Society Seminar , hosted by the Institute for Humane St...