GvH Conference

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.   Viele Libertäre definieren Freiheit als Abwesenheit von physischer Gewalt oder deren Androhung. Sie kritisieren, wie Ralph Raico, daher den Freiheitsbegriff von John Stuart Mill. Mill sprach von „the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling to impose, by […]

This material was originally delivered as a speech at the XIX GvH Conference in May 2025.   Kurz nach dem Amtsantritt Donald Trumps als Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten erschien in der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung ein hoffnungsfroher Kommentar mit dem Titel „Trumps Konterrevolution: Woke als progressive Leitkultur ist am Ende “ 1. Der Autor, Benedikt Neff, […]

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 […]