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  Public universities suffer from a serious disease: what Milton and Rose Friedman called the tyranny of the status quo. Public universities are direct beneficiaries of central government subsidies that cover staff costs and operating expenses. Only a small portion of these subsidies are performance-based; the remaining part simply covers costs and losses. For instance, […]

   Defining of the public interest is always very, very difficult.   Sir Keir Starmer, currently Prime Minister of the UK and leader of the UK Labor Party   Take Away The ubiquitous concept of the Public Interest, if it can be defined at all, serves as the fundamental criterion for establishing the legitimation of […]

Dr Michael Esfeld discussed the separation of the state from education and science will not harm them. It will only deprive scientism of its vehicle and prevent the institutions of education and science from being used as weapons against people’s fundamental rights and their voluntary cooperation.

A speech given during XVIII. Gottfried von Haberler Conference on May 17, 2024 Summary This lecture is based on the contrast between the classical liberal idea on the one hand and the idea of Platonism or scientism on the other. The classical liberal idea is to recognize every human being as a person with fundamental […]