Week of December 16, 2024

LIBERTY FUND'S MOST ATTENDED VRGS of 2024

Check out four featured Virtual Reading Groups (VRGs) from our 2024 "Best Of's" series, posted on Liberty Fund's Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and X

Buchanan's Moral Science and
Moral Order
Liberty, Law, and the Social Contract in Hobbes to Hume
Frank H. Knight's Freedom and Reform: Essays in Economics and Social Philosophy

Virtual Reading Groups, or VRGs, provide a space for you to join others and have interesting conversations on particular topics and readings relevant to liberty. Participation is offered at no cost, and the only requirement is that participants be eager to read and engage in conversation.

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LATEST FROM OUR PODCASTS

This week on the EconTalk podcast, host Russ Roberts is joined by guest and journalist Matti Friedman. Listen in as Friedman recounts his experience as a soldier in Lebanon in his book titled
Pumpkinflowers. Friedman reflects on that experience in light of current events and looks into the future.
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Tune in to the last episode of The Law & Liberty Podcast for the year! In this episode, host Helen Dale is joined by Konstantin Kisin who has emerged as a powerful voice opposing “wokeness.” Listen as they discuss the current state of wokeness, Kisin's engagement with it, and the politics of the US, UK, and Australia.
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SUGGESTED READINGS

Featured Liberty Fund Conference Readings | We invite you to explore the carefully selected readings of recent Liberty Fund Socratic-style conferences. 

Liberty and liberal learning face unprecedented challenges. Dialogue and civilized conversation are increasingly overshadowed by emotional sensitivities, political correctness, and even notions of “epistemic justice.” This shift risks advancing relativism, undermining the foundation of classical education rooted in historical wisdom and genuine tolerance. Our recent conference, Liberty and Liberal Education, explored classic texts in the liberal tradition on education and highlighted innovative institutions emerging to address these modern challenges. 

TOP PICKS FROM THE LIBERTY FUND NETWORK

Puerto Rico's Struggle for Liberty by Ojel L. Rodríguez Burgos
Democracy's Opportunity Cost by Janet Bufton
Did Taylor Swift "Juice the Economy"? by Pierre Lemieux

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A CALL TO LIBERTY

Read our final two articles for 2024 on A Call to Liberty including a lead essay titled Against Authority by Jerome Copulsky and a pamphlet commentary essay titled The Role of Theology and Philosophy in American Independence by Glenn Moots.

 A Call to Liberty is a two-year, 24-part series that strives to reawaken interest in and respect for the Declaration of Independence as we approach its 250th anniversary in July of 2026. Every month, Liberty Fund brings you a slate of fresh content that explores questions related to important themes from the Declaration and considers them in relation to our past, our present, and our future.

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