LibertyCon is where ideas are incubated and brought to life. With access to world-class speakers, inspiring panels, and workshops — at LibertyCon, “knowledge sharing” is more than a buzzword. LibertyCon 2019, hosted in Washington D.C. on January 17–19, kicked off with educational breakout sessions on “conscious capitalism,” the...
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The Adam Smith Center in Singapore held its first Imagine Conference, celebrating the ideas of free markets in a country where free expression is often endangered. This year’s theme was the “Future of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Progress.” The conference explored “the big ideas that will shape our future” including the imp...
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Students for Liberty France has recently published an anthology of classical liberalism that compiles 17 texts, each of them with an accompanying foreword by a scholar. All the texts are in French and most of them are written by French writers such as Benjamin Constant, Frédéric Bastiat, and Émile-Auguste Chartier (commonly know...
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Africa’s Think Tank Shark Tank is a regional competition aimed at supporting innovation in the promotion of liberty. Three professionals pitch their programs to a panel of judges, for a chance to win $5,000 in seed funding for their pitch project.
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The Africa Liberty Forum #AfricaLF18, sponsored by Atlas Network with local organizing co-host African Students for liberty, is a gathering of the best and the brightest in Africa to discuss and exchange solutions that promote liberty and free-market reforms in the region. Major sponsorship generously provided by the John Temple...
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After the 2017 election in Lithuania, the country saw an increased crackdown on the use of drugs. Being caught with a small amount of marijuana among friends can lead to a distribution charge and 2–8 years of imprisonment. Vilnius Students for Liberty (Vilnius SFL) is looking to change public opinion concerning Lithuania’s drug...
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Students For Liberty’s (SFL) annual conference in Washington D.C., LibertyCon — formerly known as the International Students for Liberty Conference (ISFLC) — was once again a resounding success in 2018. The conference, hosted from March 2-4, was in part sponsored by Atlas Network and featured the works of Atlas Network’s partner...
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Poverty, literacy rates, and youth unemployment are part of a long list of Africa’s biggest challenges. But at the top of this list is corruption. It sweeps indiscriminately across the continent. Africa has countries that have been ruled by dictators for over 30 years, and in others power shifts from father to son. This is only...
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Students for Liberty — Philippines held its inaugural Students for Liberty — Philippines conference on July 21-22, educating more than 60 people from local universities on SFL’s core ideas of individual liberties and free markets. Speakers included Business Week columnist Nonoy Oplas, former German MP Markus Löning as well as th...
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Jakarta, Indonesia, is rapidly becoming home to a movement of young people committed to the ideals of a free and open society. Nothing demonstrates that more than Students For Liberty (SFL) Indonesia’s Asia Pacific SFL Conference, recently held in Jakarta from August 18-20 under the organizing theme of “Living the Future – Techn...
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Often, those who may immediately benefit greatly from the ideas of economic freedom are those who have never been exposed to them. One such group of people are the over 35 million speakers of Malayalam in southwestern India. An ongoing project of the Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR), an Atlas Network partner organization...
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Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo all have a similar history of suppressive governments. The political leaders of the region do not allow the population to express themselves or work freely. Economic freedom and individual liberty are crucial in order for the African Great Lakes region to achieve prosperi...
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Each year at the International Students For Liberty Conference (ISFLC), the organization recognizes an alumnus of the year, granting the award to a former student who has made a significant contribution to advancing freedom. This year, Students for Liberty (SFL) presented the Alumnus of the Year Award to Dr. Tom G. Palmer, Atlas...
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Africa is an enormous and diverse continent encompassing dozens of independent countries with wide-ranging political systems, circumstances, and resources. Still, people share a struggle for liberty throughout Africa that shares many commonalities. Students for Liberty (SFL) and African Students for Liberty (ASFL) have partnered...
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Burundi, a small nation in central Africa, has been marked by decades of regional unrest, periodic civil war, and an unstable democracy. Individual liberty and economic freedom are necessary for Burundi to achieve a prosperous future, and African Students for Liberty (ASFL) is helping to instill these principles in a new generat...
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A peaceful demonstration by the Bulgarian Libertarian Society (BLS), an Atlas Network partner based in Sofia, decorated a campus statue of Karl Marx with a bloody crown and plastic bones in order to illustrate the real consequences of Marxist ideas. Communism is responsible for a horrifying death toll, but today’s students in B...
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Indonesians have enjoyed democracy for more than 18 years now. Although collectivist ideas are still widespread in Indonesia, a young generation is taking an increasing interest in the ideas of liberty. The freedom-oriented website SuaraKebebasan.org (“Voice of Freedom”), an Atlas Network partner based in Indonesia, has establis...
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Indonesia had a troubled history of political violence and oppression throughout much of the 20th century, so it’s inspiring to see how much the ideas of liberty are flourishing among a new rising generation of youth. Students for Liberty Indonesia has only been active for a short while, but in the past couple of years it has tr...
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In order for think tanks to generate rigorous studies and shape the policy discussions in their countries, they need to learn how to use the most meticulous research methods. The Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR), an Atlas Network partner based in India, has worked with Atlas Leadership Academy (ALA) since 2012 to cultiva...
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Freedom Day is an annual day-long celebration of the ideas of liberty, freedom of speech and expression, religion, equality, and other individual rights. Hosted by the National Constitution Center, each year’s Freedom Day “brings together the top liberal, libertarian and conservative thought leaders in America for a national con...
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We live in a world shaped both by the dynamic growth of market activity and the crushing destruction of government oppression. Many young people today seem to believe that socialism is just another word for fairness and sharing, so it’s important to remind them of the devastating consequences that socialism has had on the world...
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Public pensions face insolvency throughout the United States, often because they promise to pay out guaranteed benefits rather than defined contributions, despite an uncertain fiscal future — as well as the standard government use of accounting methods that are designed to conceal real actuarial risk. Reason Foundation has been...
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The annual International Students for Liberty Conference (ISFLC) attracts young people from around the world who want to explore new ideas, strategies, and opportunities for advancing liberty. More than 1,700 people attended in 2015, and this year’s conference, held Feb. 26–28 at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C., is...
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Exploring the ideas of a free society just became easier with a new video series from Learn Liberty, providing an accessible introduction to libertarian ideas. Liberty 101, co-sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies and Students For Liberty, is an on-demand series that will explore timely topics on the fundamental principl...
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In order to take the steps necessary to achieve a truly free society, it’s important to envision how that society would work in practice. One of the world’s foremost libertarian theorists, David D. Friedman, recently visited India for a series of lectures hosted by Atlas Network partner the Centre for Civil Society (CCS), along...
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With a diverse array of cultures and political systems all in close proximity, the people of Europe face both unique challenges and opportunities in spreading the ideas of liberty. The fourth annual European Students for Liberty Conference (ESFLC) welcomed more than 500 participants from 43 countries to Berlin in April to exchan...
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Children in developing nations will be the future leaders, so it’s crucial that they start learning the value of liberty and sound economics at an early age. One of the best tools yet developed for teaching economic concepts to children is The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free-Market Odyssey, by economist Ken Schoolland, t...
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Without a culture grounded in the ideas of liberty, individual autonomy, and property rights, the chances for any nation to build a prosperous society are fleeting at best. That’s why it’s so important for organizations like African Students for Liberty (ASFL) to instill in the continent’s youth a thorough background in freedom...
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During the International Students for Liberty Conference held Feb. 13–15 in Washington, D.C., Atlas Network hosted a competition to advance the battle of ideas for freedom on international campuses and among international student groups. Out of the 12 people who competed, Ratko Nikolic from Serbia won for his proposal to develop...
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Students for Liberty has grown from a handful of college students in 2008 who wanted to share ideas for how to build their libertarian campus groups to a worldwide network of more than 1,350 student groups representing more than 100,000 students on all inhabited continents. That stunning growth in the space of seven short years...
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This year’s eighth annual International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, D.C., is expected to be bigger and better than ever before, bringing in more than 1,000 attendees from across the globe. The conference features notable speakers including Dr. Ron Paul, Judge Andrew Napolitano, and former President of Mexico V...
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The annual International Students for Liberty Conference attracts young freedom champions from across the globe to explore new ideas, strategies, and opportunities for advancing liberty. Attendance at the conference has risen from a modest group of about 30 participants at its founding in 2008 to more than 1,400 people, and Atla...
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Leonard P. Liggio, Atlas Network’s long-time executive vice president, passed away on October 14, 2014. It’s been very touching to see the outpouring of affection following his death. We knew how beloved Leonard was within the freedom movement, but it remains nothing short of awe-inspiring to see so many tributes to his influenc...
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Changes are fermenting in the landlocked, English-speaking Republic of Malawi. The longstanding command economy of Malawi controls currency values, dictates prices of goods and services, and subsidizes maize, tobacco, and other crops which form the bedrock of Malawi’s economy. The country’s enormous youth population is feeling s...
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Recently, the Internet has been flooded with new, informative memes about liberty. Atlas Network partner Students For Liberty has launched a meme series called Facts For Liberty, highlighting interesting and quick facts on policies adopted by countries all over the world that are geared toward free markets and free people.
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