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Category Archives: Blog
How SFL’s Campus Coordinator Program Changed My Life
Two years ago, I was a typical 20-year-old. I went to school, had a part time job, and had no idea what I was doing with my life. That summer, I went to FIRE’s Campus Freedom Network, mostly because I … Continue reading
Liberty Without Borders
Six months ago, I would not have believed that I would soon jump on the overnight sleeper train from St. Petersburg to Moscow to launch first ever student forum for freedom in Russia. Now, flipping through a day’s fill of … Continue reading
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Tagged Democracy, ESFL, Forum for Freedom, Irena Schneider, Putin, Russia, Vladimir Putin
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My Story of Empowerment as a Campus Coordinator
This weekend, I had a conversation with some friends at an Institute for Humane Studies seminar about the culture of Students For Liberty. One of the key aspects of SFL’s culture is our theory of empowerment. SFL believes that student leaders … Continue reading
“Public Good”: A Tool for Tyranny
This article was originally published in Arizona State University’s The State Press. Last week, as I was enjoying a cigar at my favorite shop, the man next to me was talking about mandating health care for everyone. He said we all … Continue reading
Libertarians You’ve Never Heard Of: Anthony Benezet
Recently some SFL leaders discussed if perhaps we were overreaching with this series, assigning the label “libertarian” too freely. To be fair, many of the “libertarians you’ve never heard of” would be more-accurately described as proto-libertarians or classical liberals generally. … Continue reading
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Tagged abolitionism, American Revolution, Anthony Benezet, antiwar, Pacifism, Philadelphia, Quaker War Tax Resistance, Quakers, slavery
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Memes and Liberty; or, “I CAN HAZ LIMITD GUBMENT”
Perhaps it’s best that I start this with a confession. When SFL went about creating meme images for ISFLC, I was not very excited. Rather, I found myself thinking, “This isn’t very cool”. Well, my thoughts led me to research … Continue reading
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Tagged #flib, Internet, Memes, Memes for Liberty, Parks and Recreation, Ron Swanson
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In the Name of Cybersecurity: CISPA, the Most Recent Threat to Free Speech
Censorship has become an all too frequently used word. Nowhere is this seen more than in the fight against Internet regulation. In Reno v. ACLU, the Supreme Court declared that the Internet was a free speech zone and, as such, was protected by … Continue reading
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Tagged Censorship, CISPA, Cybersecurity, Facebook, Free Speech, Google, Internet, Internet Regulation, PIPA, SOPA
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Austin Rallies for Peace
The city of Austin has a illustrious history of peace activism, most notably during the Vietnam War in the 1960s. Unfortunately, Austin has fallen into the same troubling trend that the national peace movement has fallen victim to ever since Barack … Continue reading
Libertarian Pacifism and the Everlasting Knowledge Problem
Libertarians generally oppose the initiation of force on a philosophical level. Some are more “hardcore” than others, but, in general, we have a strong commitment to voluntary interaction, interpreted as the absence of force. However, when violence is initiated, we … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-war, antiwar, F. A. Hayek, Just War Theory, Knowledge Problem, Non-Interventionism, Pacifism, war
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