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  Since the partition of the Indian subcontinent, regular and often violent disputes have broken out along the Line of Control in Kashmir. Both India and Pakistan claim the region in full, though control has been split since the first war between the two countries. One of these disputes erupted at the end of April, triggering […]

  Global debt has reached staggering figures, totaling more than $300 trillion in 2024. Most of this debt is concentrated in the older, industrialized democracies, as well as China. It comprises public sector (sovereign) debt, corporate borrowings and household liabilities. Collectively, it represents roughly 300 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. In 2024, the total […]

This material was originally delivered as a speech at the XIX GvH Conference in May 2025.   In contemporary discourse, D.E.I. – diversity, equity and inclusion – are treated as objectives to be achieved through policy or institutional mandates. The language used to promote these objectives often undermines the organic role which diversity plays and […]

This material was originally delivered as a speech at the XIX GvH Conference in May 2025.   Abstract Erec Smith, Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and former Associate Professor of Rhetoric at York College of Pennsylvania, offers this critical examination of the motivations and consequences of the Critical Social Justice (CSJ) movement. Drawing upon […]

This material was originally delivered as a speech at the XIX GvH Conference in May 2025.   In the preface to his book “Socialism”, Ludwig von Mises warns of the threat posed by socialism to individual freedom, in particular “the desperate struggle of lovers of freedom, prosperity and civilization against the rising tide of totalitarian […]