Distributive Justice and Adam Smith
Adam Smith, perhaps much to the surprise of his detractors, is quite concerned about inequality. In fact, Smith champions free markets and opposes the sundry schemes of the tyrannical men of the...
View ArticleIvette Cano is SFL Alum of the Year 2023
Ivette Cano was honored with the prestigious Students For Liberty Alumnus of the Year 2023 award at LibertyCon International in Washington, D.C. Her outstanding work, leadership, and contributions...
View ArticleSay It Wasn’t You: Shaggy, Blame-shifting, and Heraclitean Metaphysics
The 2000 hit single ‘It Wasn’t Me’ by Jamaican-American recording artist Shaggy famously features a fearful protagonist, who has been caught in an act of infidelity by his significant other, receiving...
View ArticleA Politics of Non-Harm
We should aim for harmlessness. No matter what else we set ourselves to throughout our lives, and no matter what other values and principles we might hold to, unpinning and informing it all must be a...
View ArticleSFL Edinburgh’s Advocacy Against Tobacco Bans in The House of Commons
On February 7th, 2024, due to their previous work on tobacco and vaping legislation, our team in Edinburgh was invited by the Director of Forest, Simon Clark, to attend a forum in the House of...
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SFL Madrid for Women’s Rights Around the Globe
Students for Liberty Madrid celebrated Women’s Week with a series of impactful events aimed at highlighting the contributions and perspectives of women in the realm of liberty advocacy, as well as the...
View ArticleAll aboard Nozick’s minimal state express, next stop utopia
“Individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if...
View ArticleHow Putin’s aggression has backfired
Over two years into Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, Europe finds itself grappling with profound geopolitical shifts. Indeed, the consequences of Putin’s aggression are reverberating...
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Team Montenegro Established!
We want to take a moment to acknowledge the gradual but noteworthy progress of Students For Liberty Montenegro. In just under a year, this team has evolved from its humble beginnings into a...
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Book Published by Czech Students For Liberty Is the Book of the Month
If you have been to any of our Czech team’s events in the past few months, you are already well familiar with Úvod do rakouské ekonomie – the group’s translation of professor Steven Horwitz’s book...
View ArticleGuardians of Liberty: The Role of Written Constitutions
Image credits: Anthony Garand, licensed under Unsplash Written constitutions are crucial bulwarks of fundamental liberty against short-term democratic majorities. Constitutions enshrine certain...
View ArticleAyn Rand and Beyond: The Future of Liberty in Fiction?
If one opens Goodreads and searches for the keyword “liberty,” some scrolling is required to reach a work of fiction, namely Atlas Shrugged. Other than Ayn Rand’s works, only those of George Orwell...
View ArticleStatement on Violence in Tbilisi from Students For Liberty
McLean, VA, May 11, 2024 – Students For Liberty, the largest international pro-liberty student organization in the world, issued a statement today on the growing violence in Tbilisi, Georgia,...
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Galt’s Gulch Is in Spain: The John Galt Seminar by Our Team in Spain
This march, the first John Galt Retreat, organized by SFL Madrid, took place in Navas de la Estena, amidst the breathtaking landscapes of the Cabañeros National Park. Participants had the opportunity...
View ArticleWhy do some societies prosper, while others remain stagnant and poor?
Image citation: London Bridge (old), London, c1830. Artist: R Martin. Upon hearing this question, a (stereotypical) economist is likely to jump to the ideological defence of whichever school they...
View ArticleFootball & Liberty: Political and Economic Issues in Argentina
Football (Soccer) is the world’s most popular and watched sport, with over 3 billion people watching the final of the World Cup in Qatar alone, where Argentina was crowned champion. Argentines have...
View ArticleHonoring David Boaz: A Pillar of Libertarianism and a Champion of SFL
Today, the liberty movement has suffered a tremendous loss with the news that David Boaz passed away this morning, succumbing to a years-long battle with cancer. David served for over 40 years at the...
View ArticleThe Proper Role of a Political Economist
James Buchanan won the Nobel in 1986 “for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making.” While this work is usually traced to...
View ArticleA human-centred approach to rethinking wealth and individual liberty
It is election season, so to speak. From the EU to India to the US, Ghana, Brazil and many more countries. An estimated 49% of the world’s population will head to the polls in national elections this...
View ArticleInherit the Wind: A Defense of the Individual Mind
Inherit the Wind (1960) is, on its face, a dramatic re-enactment of the Scopes Trial of 1925. Henry Drummond is Clarence Darrow, Matthew Brady is William Jennings Bryan, E. K. Hornbeck is H. L....
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