Impromptu Facebook Campaign Delivers Internet to Afghan Think Tank
“If we can help an indigenous libertarian project, it may mean more to this country, the region, and the world, than hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars poured from one governmental hand into another,” Atlas’s Tom Palmer wrote in an email early this week. He was referring to the exciting effort spawned last Friday on [...]
Tom Palmer on John Stossel
Last week Tom Palmer, and other Atlas friends, like Johan Norberg and June Arunga joined John Stossel on his program to discuss the merits of Free Trade. This is Part 1 of 6 portions of the show.
Event Report: Atlas Experience 2010
Thank you to all who joined us at this year’s Atlas Experience in Miami. Below, you will find presentations from many of our speakers as well as audio and video of the talks. Images from the event can be viewed on our Flickr Page. WEDNESDAY, April 21St 9:30-10:45am AUDIO The History of Liberty: From Ancient [...]
Atlas Staff Around the Web
Please take the time to read this interview with Tom Palmer featured in the Washington Examiner last week. And, In case you haven’t seen this lovely video in honor of Leonard Liggio put together by the Institute for Economic Studies-Europe on their 20th Anniversary,do take a look.
Book Forum with Atlas’s Tom Palmer December 1st.
Tomorrow, December 1st, the Cato Institute will be hosting a book forum for Tom Palmer, where he will be discussing his recent book, Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History and Practice. Tyler Cowen of the Mercatus Center will also offer comments. For further information, and to watch the event live tomorrow visit here.
Vienna
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. [...]
The Egypt Audit
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 [...]
Tom Palmer on Reason.tv
The Atlas Global Initiative’s Tom Palmer was recently interviewed by Reason.Tv on his new book Realizing Freedom and the history of the Libertarian movement, take a look. You can learn more about Tom, and follow his travels by reading his blog, or following him on twitter.
Tom Palmer on G.A. Cohen
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 [...]
The Motorhome Diaries Talks with Tom Palmer
The Motorhome Diaries, sponsored by the Atlas Network, recently rolled though Washington, DC and I had the opportunity to interview Tom Palmer. We discussed how he discovered the ideas of liberty and what he has done to further these ideas, including the launch of the Atlas Global Initiative.
Follow Tom Palmer Through Asia
Atlas’s vice president of international relations, and leader of the Atlas Global Initiative Tom Palmer is currently on a trip visiting with institutes and partners throughout Asia. Tom will be documenting his trip via Atlas’s Tumblr account . Here is his first post, after a lecture in New Delhi: I had some really great meetings [...]
Atlas Global Initiative Highlights
Here’s what’s going on around AGI this week: Tom G. Palmer’s new book, Realizing Freedom, hit the shelves this week! Check it out and purchase it here. Our Kurdish site, Chiraiazadi.org, is now on Facebook and Twitter. Follow and friend us! Cheragheazadi.org just released Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman, in Farsi. There’s a must [...]
Suppression of Critical Thinking in Arab Countries
In a recent article published in the Beirut Daily Star, Atlas vice president for international programs, Tom Palmer, and Raja Kamal of the University of Chicago, assert that massive public spending on “shameful traditional education systems” in Arab countries has failed to prepare students for modernity and the global economy. Palmer and Kamal use Saudi [...]
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