Campus Libertarians Events

Globalization: It's Gr-r-reat!, a talk by Tom Palmer, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute Abridged transcript of speech

February 25, 7 PM, Math 100 · Attendance: 210 · photo

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Civil Liberties Challenges During the War on Terrorism A lecture by David Kopel. David Kopel, associate policy analyst at the Cato Institute, is also a research director at the Independence Institute and director of the Center on the Digital Economy, at the Heartland Institute. He is the author of No More Wacos: What's Wrong with Federal Law Enforcement, and How to Fix It, Antitrust After Microsoft, and The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy: Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies? He is an expert on firearms policy, juvenile crime, drug policy, criminal sentencing, and environmental law. And believe it or not, Kopel also voted for Ralph Nader in the last presidential election, and is a long-time member of both the NRA and the ACLU.

January 23, Humanities 135, 7 PM. · Attendance: 50

A South Park episode, followed by: Is America #1? compares the quality of life in the U.S. with the rest of the world, and considers reasons for the disparity in prosperity. Stossel measures the cultural and economic freedom around the globe, using New York City, Hong Kong and Calcutta as his prime examples. Includes interviews with economists, authors, political commentators and immigrants.