This article is excerpted from a talk delivered at the 2018 annual meeting of the Property and Freedom Society . Introduction Ladies and gentlemen, the first task for any intellectual or ideological effort is to understand the environment surrounding it. Whether we like it or not, we live in a decidedly illiberal age: an age hostile to private
This talk by Mises Institute President Jeff Deist was delivered on June 19, 2015 at a lunchtime meeting of the Grassroot Institute in Honolulu at the Pacific Club. The talk was part of the Mises Institute’s Private Seminar series for lay audiences. To schedule your own Private Seminar with a Mises Institute speaker, please contact Kristy Holmes
[ Excerpt from the opening speech given at the Mises Institute’s 35th Anniversary gala in New York City, October 6, 2017 .] Thank you Ashton. Thank you all so much for making the time to be with us here on this fantastic fall weekend in New York. We hear a lot about young people turning to socialism. Ashton is not one of them. She worked for a
Introducción Señoras y señores, la primera tarea de cualquier esfuerzo intelectual o ideológico es comprender el entorno que lo rodea. Nos guste o no, vivimos en una edad decididamente iliberal: una era hostil a la propiedad privada, el individualismo, la civilidad, el habla, la libertad académica, la cultura, incluso a la civilización misma. El
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