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January 27, 2015 Developing the Developed World Entrepreneurship, Liberty, and the Future Peter A. Thiel
July 31, 2014 Living Economics Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Peter J. Boettke
July 24, 2014 Are There Lessons for Us Today from Nazi Gun Control? Stephen P. Halbrook
May 6, 2014 Whither America A Foreign Policy Debate Among Realists, Nationalists and Internationalists Ivan Eland, Michael Lind, Henry R. Nau
April 9, 2014 Liberty Defined The Future of Freedom Ron Paul
February 13, 2014 P.J. O’Rourke “Talkin’ ’Bout His Generation” P. J. O’Rourke
July 18, 2013 Civil Liberties and Security in an Age of Terrorism Robert Higgs, Anthony Gregory, Mary L. G. Theroux
October 4, 2012 Replacing Obamacare and Curing the Healthcare Crisis John C. Goodman
April 19, 2012 Why Government Fails But Free Individuals Succeed John Stossel
February 9, 2012 Restoring First Principles The Economy, Bailouts, and the Right to Bear Arms Vern P. McKinley, Stephen P. Halbrook, Donald J. Boudreaux
November 15, 2011 A Gala for Liberty 25th Anniversary Gala Reception and Dinner Lech Wałęsa, Mario Vargas Llosa, Robert Higgs
July 14, 2011 Hot Talk and Cold Science of Global Warming After Kyoto, Climategate and the “Hockey Stick” S. Fred Singer
May 7, 2011 Economic Liberalism and the Free Society in the Developing World Emily C. Skarbek
December 9, 2010 Is U.S. Justice Broken? Overcoming Government Legal Failure Edward J. López, David D. Friedman, Alex A. Kozinski
October 7, 2010 Economic Religion vs. Environmental Religion in America Robert H. Nelson, Steven F. Hayward, Max L. Stackhouse
July 22, 2010 The Supreme Court and the Battle for Second Amendment Rights (Oakland) Stephen P. Halbrook, Donald E. J. Kilmer, Jr.
June 8, 2010 The Supreme Court and the Battle for Second Amendment Rights (Washington, D.C.) Stephen P. Halbrook, Nelson Lund
May 20, 2010 Understanding Today's Economy A Summer-Seminar Preview for Teens and Their Parents Gregory Rehmke, Michael Winther, Emily C. Skarbek, Anthony Gregory, José Maria J. Yulo
December 9, 2009 Can the U.S. Withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq? Ivan Eland, Peter Galbraith, Charles V. Peña
September 30, 2009 Out of the Storm A Conference on Property Insurance Reform
June 4, 2009 Understanding Today's Economy Preview for Homeschoolers from the Challenge of Liberty Summer Seminars Gregory Rehmke, Michael Winther, Brian C. Gothberg, José Maria J. Yulo, Anthony Gregory
April 7, 2009 What President Obama Should Learn from His Predecessors Ivan Eland, Andrew R. Rutten
January 7, 2009 Bush, Obama, and Presidential Power Ivan Eland, Ron Paul, Richard Shenkman
November 13, 2008 Lessons from the Poor The Power of Entrepreneurship Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Jorge Quiroga, William R. Easterly
September 16, 2008 A Gala for Liberty: The Independent Institute’s Gala Reception and Dinner Presentation of the Alexis de Tocqueville Award Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, Andy Garcia, William K. Bowes, Jr.
July 2, 2008 What the Second Amendment Means Today Stephen P. Halbrook, Don B. Kates, Jr.
June 9, 2008 Is the Second Amendment an Individual Right? Stephen P. Halbrook, Joyce Lee Malcolm
April 15, 2008 Is the “War on Terror” Creating Terrorism? Ian S. Lustick, Ivan Eland, D. Gareth Porter
March 7, 2008 The New International Arms Race in Space And How to Avoid It Peter L. Hays, Theresa Hitchens, Jeff Kueter, Mike M. Moore
February 21, 2008 The Secret to Making Poor Nations Rich Benjamin Powell