September 5, 2014
Our experience at ‘The Best Liberty Show on Earth!’
Mark Skousen's Freedom Fest is truly the most spectacular gathering of free minds in the world. Spectacular? Of course! Barnum and Bailey had exotic animals, clowns, and acrobats to promote...how hard can that be? But Mark turns intellectuals and academics into…
June 25, 2014
The Market for Morality
The first time I took an online taxi cab – I was nervous. Here I was on a street corner, using an iphone app (Uber or Lyft) to call a random driver. Who was this mysterious person? If anyone with…
June 5, 2014
ISIL at Freedom Fest 2014
From Mark Skousen, producer of FreedomFest: I woke up this morning thinking about "Why We Need to Get Together Once a Year." Over the years, I’ve been impressed with the proliferation of free-market think tanks and freedom organizations which are…
June 4, 2014
Truant in America
Have you ever heard of anybody who never went to school? No, I don't mean 'home schooled'. I'm talking about no school at all. No curriculum. No home school course. No online accredited program. Never went to Kindergarten, or any…
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…
March 19, 2014
Dallas Buyer’s Club Illustrates How Regulations Kill
Just a few weeks ago, Hollywood honored Matthew McConaughey with the Academy Award for Best Actor in the movie Dallas Buyer’s Club. Matthew plays Ron Woodroof, a real-life Texas electrician and rodeo rider, who discovers that he has contracted AIDS…
February 22, 2014
ISIL at the hottest young libertarian event this year!
From Jim Elwood, ISIL Executive Director The seventh annual International Students For Liberty Conference was held over this past weekend in Washington DC. Starting with just 100 students in 2008, this year's event drew nearly 1,500, with sizeable numbers from…
February 20, 2014
What's behind $7 gallons of milk in Hawaii?
ISIL president Ken Schoolland was interviewed by Hawaii News Now this week on what is behind the rising milk prices. The interview was shortened significantly for the TV spot, but the point has still been made. He highlighted the some…
January 1, 2014
20 Years of NAFTA: Has Trade Been Made Any Freer?
Twenty years ago today the North American Free Trade Agreement was put in to action. Ideally "the world's largest free trade area" should be reason to celebrate——finally a large scale example of free trade in the real world!——but unfortunately there's…
October 1, 2013
Parents for Liberty Conference announcement
October 12th in Austin, TX An all star lineup of dynamic presentations… Learning, the path to achieving liberty, prosperity, and joyfulness, in our lifetime. This event will sell out. Only 100 tickets available. Our speakers have been carefully chosen to…
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