Mario Vargas Llosa: Lectures/Articles

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Lectures

American Enterprise Institute (USA)
Confessions of a Liberal, Acceptance speech, Irving Kristol Award, March 2005

Center for Independent Studies (Australia)
Questions of Conquest and Culture, Occasional papers, John Bonython Lecture, September 1993

Articles Archive

English:

“Why Does Latin America Fail?“, Cato Policy Report, January/February 2003

An article on the lack of classical liberal reforms in Latin America and the political and cultural environment of the region.

“Global Village or Global Pillage“, Reason Magazine, July 2001

An article on liberalism and the foundations of political and economic free societies.

“The Children of Columbus“, Reason Magazine, January 1995

An article written by Vargas Llosa on the effects and consequences of Columbus’s discovery of America on culture and Latin American history, “mestizaje” and liberty.

“Literature and Freedom“, Center for Independent Studies, Occasional papers, February 1994

In this CIS Occasional Paper, Mario Vargas Llosa highlights the mutually beneficial relationship between literature and freedom. Where freedom does not exist, censorship and self-censorship stifle creativity, literature tends to become conformist and predictable.

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