October 29, 2018
The Immigration Issue in Libertarianism
By Per Bylund Over a decade ago, I wrote an article published at Mises.org on the libertarian immigration conundrum. The “conundrum” was the seemingly unbridgeable differences between, if not contradictory views of, the two libertarian answers to the immigration question.…
September 26, 2015
Uncle Sam, Don't Build This Wall!
I am watching the National Geographic Channel program ‘The 80's: The Decade That Made Us: ‘Tear Down These Walls’. As the title alludes, it includes Ronald Reagan’s famous quote, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” I was not a great…
September 23, 2015
Ken Schoolland – Migration, Liberty & Prosperity
"It's my passion," said Ken Schoolland, speaking at the World Conference on Market Liberalization in Bali 2015 about the topic of migration, "This is where my passion is." Professor Ken Schoolland, economist, gave a lecture about the importance of open…
June 6, 2014
Reflections on Kazakhstan: Ideas and Performance
I’ve traveled a lot, but never to such an exotic destination as Kazakhstan. The country and the people are a mix of everything Asia—Russian, Mongolian, Turkish, Indian, modern, prosperous, intellectual, traditional, proud, friendly, and aware. I landed on the vast…
April 20, 2014
The Mariel Boatlift: Voting With Boats
It is said that freedom always wins when people are allowed to vote with their feet…they move from locations of high tyranny to places of relative freedom—always in very great numbers. 34 years ago today, on April 20, 1980, Fidel…
October 1, 2013
VIDEO: ISIL President at the Asia Liberty Forum
February 24, 2010
Why Open Immigration?
By Ken Schoolland A speech delivered at the world conference of the International Society for Individual Liberty (Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - July 29, 2002) I am not the kind of guy who relishes confrontation. I get nervous when I espouse…