Professors of Liberty Home Page
The "Professors of Liberty" consist of those faculty members at
the universities who embrace and advocate the ideals of individual
liberty and self-responsibility. Many consider themselves libertarians
or classical liberals. Others consider themselves Austrian economists,
objectivists, anarcho-capitalists, etc.
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This home page is under construction, and I hope to add things
semi-regularly. Last updated: 17 April 2001
Disclaimer: I offer these web pages not as a UCSD employee, but as a
private individual availing himself of the university's "personal use"
policy. The views expressed here have no necessary connection with those
of the university, its faculty, staff, students, alumni, etc.
LibProfs-L basics:
Course descriptions:
Articles / Essays / Letters / Discussions:
- Hot Topics / Debates:
- * Not even LibProfs is safe from the Abortion
question :-) The discussion continues,
and again resurges and is more
formalized
- * Don't Curb Cyber-porn at the Expense of Freedom
On-line, by Barry S. Fagin, and a lengthy thread on
censorship of the Internet
- * Child Erotica and Sexuality
- * Discussion on drug prohibition, revolving mainly
around Kurt Wickman's questioning of legalization
- * The great debate on Mel Gibson's _Braveheart_,
and round 2 of the debate sparked by Academy
Award nominations
- Discussions on Fundamentals:
- * Thread on the foundation of libertarian ethics:
deontology or consequentialism?
- * The Statist Premise
- * Discussion on the term "Minarchy"
- * Rule by the Ignorant, by Jan Narveson
- * Teaching democratic citizenship
- * Books on ethics recommended by list members
- Discussions centering on Economics:
- * Discussion on business cycles in free and unfree
economies
- * Is the national debt okay?
- * Discussion on low U.S. saving rate and
possible causes.
- * Speculation about the economics of Cranberry juice
- * List of the great free-market economists
- Trouble in Academia:
- * In 1994, while in Singapore, Prof. Chris Lingle published an article
critical of the government. They were not pleased. Here are some
News articles related to his "adventure",
a speech I wrote and gave about some of the
inside story, and a little follow up
regarding his publishing difficulties.
- * Two professors were arrested and charged
for leafletting an audience
- To what degree does health depend on choice?
- Debate on privatizing the FDA
- Discussion on Euthanasia and slippery slope
arguments.
- What is the ethical status of non-persons (e.g.,
animals)?
- Discussion on race and intelligence
- Tibor Machan's collection of
selected essays, Quotable Quotes,
and comments on Anti-individualism and Groupism
- The Quebec Election (WSJ, Sept. 16, 1994),
and the Friends of Liberty on Bill C-68,
by Pierre Lemieux, and
Ejan Mackaay on the Quebec secession vote
- Bourgeois Virtue, by Don McCloskey
- Thoughts on the O.J. Simpson verdict
- Thoughts on the Pope's Oct. '95 visit
- Review of Michael Graham's _Banned From Public
Radio_, by Steven Yates
- Articles by Mary Ruwart on
libertarianism from a New Age/metaphysical perspective
-
Results of the World's Smallest Political Quiz at Stanford
- Fred Foldvary tells us the true story of
Thanksgiving
Advertisements / Offerings:
Job Inquiries / Opportunities:
Professors of Liberty: Web Pages & Email Contacts:
Organization Home Pages:
- The American Civil Liberties Union
- Anti-censorship groups on the web:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation,
Families Against Internet Censorship,
Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition,
Voters Telecommunications Watch and their
Fight for the First Amendment Online!
- Austrian Economics on the Web:
The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics,
Advances in Austrian Economics,
Society for the Development of Austrian Economics,
The New Australian's page on Austrian economics,
Austrian Economics Study Guide,
- The Bionomics Institute
- BuildFreedom.com, central site
for reclaiming freedom directly
- BureauCrash
- The CATO Institute
- The Center for Cognitive Liberty
& Ethics
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The Critical Review
- Dead Economists Society
- Drug policy: Ending the War on Drug-using Americans:
The Drug Policy Alliance, and the
Drug Reform Coordination Network
-
Environmental Network Room, for free-market environmentalism
- The Extropy Institute
- The Foundation for Economic Education
and their Ideas on Liberty,
and FEE News Today
- The Freedom Forum
- Free-market.net and its
Freedom Network and
Freedom News
- Harry Browne home page
- The Heartland Institute
- The Henry Hazlitt Foundation
- Hillsdale College
- Hoover Institution at
Stanford
- Ifeminists: individualist feminism
- The Independent Institute
- The Institute for Humane Studies
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The International Society for Individual Liberty (ISIL)
- The Jefferson School of Philosophy,
Economics, and Psychology
- Laissez Faire Books, and
their LibertySearch.Com
- LewRockwell.com:
anti-state, anti-war, pro-market news site
- Libertarian.org
- Libertarian Alliance,
based in the U.K. There is also an
alternate page
- Libertarian Party
- Liberty Round Table
- Liberty Unbound:
web page for Liberty Magazine
- Need: Locke-Smith Review out of Belmont University
- The Ludwig von Mises Institute,
and The Center for, and
Journal of, Libertarian Studies
- Mediation/arbitration/negotiation rather than initiation of force:
Center for Nonviolent Communication
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The Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation, educational choice
- Nonserviam, based on the writings
of Max Stirner
- Objectivism on the Web:
The Objectivist Center and
The Ayn Rand Institute
- Reason Online: web page for
Reason Magazine, publication of
The Reason Foundation
- SchoolReformers.com
- Taking Children Seriously:
main site, and US mirror site
Misc.
John McPherson (JMlib@genius.ucsd.edu)