Constitution’s up and an upcoming lecture by Dr. John Kukla

My sincerest apologies for not posting anything yesterday. I’m still a little uncertain exactly what direction to take with the club. You all are here to learn and discuss, that much is understood. But where to begin! I’ve started with Plato, but if you’ve kept up you’ll see there’s a whole bunch of other things [...]

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The Influence of the Ancients

Keeping in touch with my earlier post on Plato’s virtue and justice and his notion of the Philosopher-King, take a look at this lecture from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute titled “What Hath Athens to do with Wall Street?: How the Ancients Help us to understand the Free Market” In it, Classics and Humanities Professor Bruce [...]

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New Things Added to Blog

The blog still has a long way to go, but check out some the new things that have been added. To the right you’ll find I’ve started gradually adding links to other websites and blogs that are helpful and similar in scope. I’ll also be uploading the minutes from each of our meetings, which you [...]

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From ‘The Proper Study of Mankind’

To all those who shun politics or poltical theory as an idle endeavor relegated to the power hungry, I offer the following excerpt from a brilliant essay we’ll be reading titled “Two Concepts of Liberty” by intellectual historian and philosopher Isaiah Berlin.  “Our philosophers seem oddly unaware of these devastating effects of their activities. It [...]

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Antony Fisher, Friedrich Hayek & the Institute of Economic Affairs

BBC has put out an excellent documentary called Tory! Tory! Tory! that looks at the historical development and rise to power of Margaret Thatcher and her ideas. The excerpts I’ve found below focus on the beginnings of the Austrian School of Economic thought, something crucial to the study of Liberty. We’ll be reading The Road to Serfdom by [...]

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Something to Read for the Next Meeting Sept 30

UPDATE: Just note, we may likely not get to this next week just because of the other things we need to cover. Plus, I’m thinking we should come up with a set schedule of topics, a syllabus of sorts, so that it’s not just me looking around for interesting articles for discussions. So in keeping [...]

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The Blog

So I am trying to make this blog a bit more attractive. If you find any free WordPress themes that are reddish and yellowish, please let me know. Or, we can just come up with our own logo/header in our color of choosing so we don’t have to use the constitution per se. Sounds like [...]

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First Meeting

So I thought our first meeting was great. I’ve already talked to a bunch of people who weren’t really sure what we were about and now have told me they’ll join. I’ll make some more posters to clear up any confusion, as well as make a couple giant posters with the address of our blog [...]

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Hello world!

I am pleased to announce Students for Liberty now has a blog! In an effort on my part to stay out of your inboxes, I will rely on this blog to relay club information, organizational things, as well as general insights and a portal to the world. Allow me to gather my thoughts on the [...]

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