Inaugural Lecture a Success

Thank you to all who joined us Wednesday afternoon to hear Dr. James Lark give a lecture on the foundational principles of the philosophy of liberty in government. Dr. Lark shaped his speech around three major principles: 1) Individuals command self ownership 2) What is rightfully produced through your labor belongs to you 3) That [...]

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Liberty Lecture Series: Dr. James Lark

MLWGS Students for Liberty is pleased to announce we will be hosting the first of our lecture series on Wednesday, October 21 at 3:30 PM in the forum. Our guest speaker will be Professor James Lark. Dr. Lark currently teaches at the University of Virginia, and served as national chairman of the Libertarian Party from [...]

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Brief Meeting Tomorrow and Two Essays

I know tomorrow is the pep rally and all, but we have a few important things we need to go over like our topic of choice for our guest speaker Dr. James Lark who will be with us on the 21st. Also, I have a couple articles/essays I’d like to hand out to you all [...]

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If You Haven’t Received the Google Group Invite…

Shoot an email to mlwgsstudentsforliberty@gmail.com or post a comment here saying you haven’t (I’ll make sure your email doesn’t show up on the blog for security’s sake) and I’ll make sure you get the invite. It may have been that I couldn’t decipher the email address you had listed or that you weren’t even there [...]

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Plato: A Primer

Alright, time for a brief introduction to one of the most influential thinkers of Western Political Thought. Bear with me, I am by no means an expert and all of what I have to say comes from individual learning as opposed to being taught in a formal setting. Teachers and philosophers out there, please offer [...]

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The Review of Metaphysics

I know for myself it’s really difficult to find a good philosophy journal that’s easy to comprehend and doesn’t assume you’re already proficient in whatever subject the article is discussing. Recently, I was looking around for some interesting articles we could take a look at about Aristotle, specifically where Liberty would fit in with his [...]

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Another Successful Fall Festival and Latest Meeting Updates

Hope all of you that came out to Fall Festival last night enjoyed yourselves. We didn’t have a booth this year but that’s basically because the club was formed after the deadline for submissions. We’ll be sure to have one next year, so be thinking of some cool ideas. Just a couple updates from our [...]

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We’re official!

Congratulations everyone, we ratified our constitution yesterday. I bet we’re the only club in the school that even knows what its constitution contains, much less is posted on a website. MP

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