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Author Archives: Todd Hollenbeck
Colorado Forum For Freedom This Saturday!
On Saturday, April 21st the Colorado Forum For Freedom will bring student leaders together from across Colorado to share best practices for student organizing and create an environment conducive to advancing the student movement for liberty through collaboration and support. … Continue reading
Free Minds Film Festival is Looking for Submissions
Film is a dynamic media for spreading the ideas of liberty, whether it is through an educational documentary or an uplifting story of an individual’s struggle against the state, films can reach new audiences both intellectually and emotionally. The Free … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Film, film festival, Free Minds Film Festival, liberty, Movies
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Celebrate Free Speech Week by Remembering the “Singing Revolution”
This week, Students For Liberty is celebrating Free Speech Week as a way for students to both celebrate a freedom that many take for granted and to defend it against those who wish to stifle it. Since the American founding, … Continue reading
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Tagged Estonia, Free Speech Week, glasnost, Nazis, perestroika, Soviet Union, The Singing Revolution
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We Need to Stop Playing in the Hunger Games
In a futuristic dystopia, Gale Hawthorne and Katniss Everdeen discuss the upcoming Hunger Games, a fight to the death put on for the pleasure of the ruling class and to discourage rebellion. Gale asks, “What if one year everyone just … Continue reading
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Tagged Dystopia, films, games, gay marriage, Hunger Games, Labyrinth, Literature, Movies, The Hunger Games
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When Compassion Comes at the Barrel of a Gun
Ideas drive actions and form the foundation of societies. A society is not an independent entity, separate from the people who live in it; societies are products of the ideas held by the individuals who make it up. Ayn Rand … Continue reading
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Tagged Ayn Rand, coercion, Compassion, Frederic Bastiat, Lysander Spooner, Morality, Penn Jillette
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Tom Palmer and the Morality of Capitalism at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Last week, Cato senior fellow and Atlas Economic Research Foundation executive Vice President, Dr. Tom Palmer visited the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs to provide a moral defense for free market capitalism. The event, hosted by the Young Americans … Continue reading
Tom Palmer in Colorado Springs Thursday, March 15th
Is capitalism moral? Most agree that markets produce economic efficiency and wealth, but believe that they also bread immorality and injustice. Tom Palmer, author of Students For Liberty’s The Morality of Capitalism, What Your Professors Won’t Tell You, will be … Continue reading
Anarcho-hockey: Order Without Central Authority
People engage in activities every day that, according to most people, should be impossible. The world cannot function, they argue, without central authorities to make and enforce rules. Their line of logic usually goes something like this: If people were … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Anarcho-capitalism, Government, Hockey, NHL, Referee, spontaneous order, zero-sum
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Special Nation-wide movie screening of Ayn Rand Documentary
For two nights only, January 17th and January 26th, a new documentary about Ayn Rand and her most famous work “Atlas Shrugged” will be screened in theaters across the country. Ayn Rand & the Prophesy of Atlas Shrugged “examines the … Continue reading
What is That Symbol?
If you attended one of SFL’s twelve regional conferences this year, you likely received one of our snazzy new shirts. If you haven’t, there is still time to register for the Fifth International Students For Liberty Conference and get one … Continue reading
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Tagged amagi, amargi, ISFLC, liberty, Regional Conferences, Sumeria, T-shirts
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