Keeping Authoritarian Regimes Accountable Through Grassroots Advocacy
Jack Hare is our volunteer in the United Kingdom who has always been passionate about liberty and democracy, campaigning on issues like free speech and human rights in his country. Recently, his...
View ArticleIn the Shadow of Assad
Amjad Aun rose from the ashes of the Syrian civil war — and a crumbled apartment — to strive for freedom. “My parents always warned me: We are in the minority inside a dictatorship,” Amjad Aun said....
View ArticleWhen is vigilantism justified?
Image citation: Superheroes Comics, licensed under Unsplash“Batman stands for something more important than the whims of a terrorist…even if everyone hates him for it. That’s the sacrifice he’s...
View ArticleThe Volunteers of Valencia
When you’re named after the hero of the Trojan War, the strongest of all the Greek warriors — a demigod who was portrayed by Brad Pitt — greatness is expected of you. Demanded, even. “Ever since I was...
View ArticleHow I Attacked the Canadian Carbon Tax
Editor’s note: This post was written and submitted by its subject, Garreth Conner. My life, and maybe the future of Canada, changed at an SFL retreat. It was a retreat for some of the most active...
View ArticleShaping Policy for the Better: House Bastiat’s Regulatory Comment
A peek behind the curtains at how law gets made — and how a few SFLers influenced it. House Bastiat, SFL’s select and talented cohort of policy wonks, kept its momentum rolling after a busy,...
View ArticleAn SFLove Story: Rachael and Dylan Dean
One August afternoon, Dylan Dean stood by a duck pond, totally unaware that his life was about to change. He had missed the registration deadline to set up a recruitment table at Montana State...
View ArticleThe LibertyCon Ledger
A Wild, Rewarding Weekend — Minute by Minute Technically, LibertyCon International, 2025 didn’t start until Friday, February 7th. But for me, the mad, glorious, and...
View ArticleTalking Economics
Image citation: Stock Market Direction by AbsolutVision licensed under Wikimedia Common Economics is easy. Thinking like an economist can be reduced to easy and even obvious principles. Consider...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Moments from an Emotional, Riveting LibertyCon 2025
Honorable Mention: Judy Shelton is introduced as “one of us” … and is happy to accept that label. Before we get to the countdown, I had to include this moment somehow. Economist Judy Shelton was...
View ArticleThe 2024 Writer of the Year Is Filip Blaha
It is not all lectures and activism – every year, our students produce original research and get repeatedly published in local, national and even international media outlets. The Writer of the Year...
View Article“Changing the world is a lot more fun when you’re doing it with friends.”
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that SFL’s two most recent Students of the Year can see the Washington Monument and the U.S. Congress from their windows. Those are inspiring visuals for aspiring...
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