I recommend visiting a new project, Commerce 21, which offers European liberals more opportunities and resources to advance freedom.
Commerce21 (http://www.commerce21.org) is a new online forum dedicated to those who share the principles of individual liberty, free market and the rule of law. Its aim is to give an online space for dialogue where young libertarians [...]

This post originally appeared on Tom Palmer’s personal Blog on October 14th.
I had an early morning seminar and book presentation on Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice, at the offices of the Hayek Institut in Vienna, followed by a visit to the Finance Ministry to hear the address of the Finance Minister, Dr. [...]

This post originally appeared on Tom Palmer’s personal blog on October 14th.

I got in last night from Cairo to Vienna, after a successful Egypt Audit program, in cooperation with the Fraser Institute and the IDSC of Egypt. The Egypt Audit applied the methods of the Economic Freedom of the World reports to one country [...]

The Central Asian Free Market Institute organized a really impressive and brilliantly coordinated program last night in Bishkek, “Idea Night.” (They expected 100 and got well over 150 [I counted 170].) Young Kyrgyz made a series of presentations, including a very impressive one on the evil “propiska” system of residency permits and internal passports. There [...]

I was contacted by several people about the death of G. A. Cohen, to whose ideas I devoted a chapter of my book Realizing Freedom. (The chapter, originally published in Critical Review, is also available in a PDF form here.)
I’ll just make two points about Cohen here, as I believe it generally best (there are exceptions) not to speak ill [...]

As Iran and much of the Middle East is in a state of ferment, the ideas of freedom are being injected into the debate at an increasing rate.  Thanks to the staff of the Atlas Global Initiative for Free Trade, Peace, and Prosperity, Iranians, Afghans, Arabs, and Kurds can now access the works of Frederic [...]

The media discussion of events in Honduras is remarkably confused. Here’s CNN:
The president of the U.N. General Assembly scheduled a noon session Monday to discuss the situation in Honduras, following a military-led coup that ousted the sitting president.
and
Micheletti, the head of Congress, became president after lawmakers voted by a show of hands to strip [...]