The new Cato Unbound is focused on the nature of liberty. The lead essay (“The Big Myth About Liberty“) by David Schmidtz and Jason Brennan is quite provocative. My response essay will run on Friday, followed by the responses from John Christman and Philip Pettit, and then a discussion among all of us. I hope to learn from the discussion.
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Third Wheel, by Prabodh.
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From my presentation on Saturday at McGill University in Montréal on the history of liberty. (Sponsored by the outstanding Institute for Liberal Studies.)
I finished and submitted my review of James C. Scott’s The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia and now I’m working on my response to an essay by David Schmidtz and Jason Brennan on “Conceptions of Freedom,” which is drawn from their quite provocative new book A Brief History of Liberty and will be run this week in Cato Unbound. Then I will return to reviewing the copy-editing for my article on “Poverty and Morality” for the volume Poverty and Morality: Religious and Secular Perspectives, ed. by William A. Galston and Peter Hoffenberg (set for release September 30, 2010, by Cambridge University Press). Assuming I am not laid low by a cold (horrible sore throat now), I’m off to Istanbul, Ankara, and Sofia on Wednesday.
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One of my favorite video clips…
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The paper at Wabash College interviewed me to the famous Goodrich Room at the college before a very nice dinner with students and my lecture, which was sponsored by the Wabash Conservative Union. I had agreed to speak on the condition that I get a guided tour of the Goodrich Room, which was endowed and designed by Pierre F. Goodrich, the founder of the Liberty Fund.
The resulting interview is a reasonably clear statement of my beliefs (but with a few tiny errors and bits of awkward phrasing that are hard to avoid when talking into a mike!): “LIBERTY UNBOUND: AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. TOM PALMER”
(Among the errors, note my confused comment that “I don’t know if James Madison ever read Gilgamesh,” which is certainly unlikely, as the text was not rediscovered until the mid 19th century.)
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After a great visit and a really wonderful seminar at McGill University organized by the Institute for Liberal Studies (and visits with some of our good friends at L’Institut économique de Montréal and with some dear friends I’d not seen in a while), I’m heading back to D.C.
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I’m off in a few hours to Montreal for the Institute for Liberal Studies conference on “Politics & Society,” then back for a bit, after which I’ll fly to Istanbul and then on to Ankara for university lectures and meetings with the 3H Movement (3 H’s: Freedom, Toleration, Rule of Law), and the Association for Liberal Thinking, then to Sofia for more talks and meetings with the Institute for Market Economics.
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“Carry On: Does the Second Amendment Apply Outside the Home?”
UPDATE: Another fine Reason commentary on the right to keep and bear arms, this one focusing on the 14th Amendment and the McDonald case: Damon Root on “Getting the 14th Amendment Right:
The Chicago gun case and the fight for economic liberty“
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Reuters: “Top court considers reach of gun rights”
Alan Gura, an attorney representing four Chicago-area residents and two gun rights groups, argued the individual right to own guns, which was found in the 2008 ruling on the Second Amendment, also extended to states and cities.
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