A podcast that investigates the lives & philosophies of thinkers throughout history who argued for a freer world. Hosted by @PaulMeany2 from @libertarianism.
Václav Havel's life was dedicated to opposing what he called post-totalitarianism, a new, more efficient breed of tyranny. To defeat post-totalitarianism he followed the advice of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, to live in truth.
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By the age of 70, Hazlitt had estimated he had written some 10,000 editorials, articles, and columns, plus a dozen books—six more followed later.
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Sophie Scholl did not stand up for some grand or utopian vision of the world. She stood for an elementary principle: individuals have the right to choose how to live and live in freedom.
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It is hard to get a clear picture of Richard Cantillon's life.
Even his death is shrouded in mystery. Some have argued he was murdered by a servant, others that he faked his death.
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Leonard E. Read, an activist, a fundraiser, and an administrator, is best known for originating the oldest existing free‐market nonprofit in the world, the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE).
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Essentially, the term civil society refers to the sphere of uncoerced collective action, as opposed to individual action, on the one hand, and government, on the other hand.
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The central libertarian claim that all human beings—indeed, all rational agents—have equal fundamental rights is rooted in the ancient tradition of cosmopolitan thought.
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After a lifetime in politics, Ibn Khaldun wrote his famous book Muqaddimah, today recognized as a masterwork of economics, historiography, and sociology.
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