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Gissurarson: Families Transmitting Knowledge between Generations

Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland, gave a talk at a family congress of ECR, European Conservatives and Reformists, in Dubrovnik in Croatia on 18 October 2024. He recalled the contrast which Aristotle had … Continue reading

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Israel, the Arab Countries, and the West

Ely Lassman, an economist from Israel working in the United Kingdom, and the founder and chairman of Prometheus on Campus, gave a talk in Reykjavik on 14 October 2024 on ‘Israel, the Arab Countries, and the West’. The event had … Continue reading

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Successful Student Conference

Students for Liberty Europe, Nordic Students for Liberty, RSE, the Icelandic Research Centre for Social and Economic Affairs, and two student associations on entrepreneurship and innovation at Reykjavik University and the University of Iceland, respectively, held a very successful conference … Continue reading

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Gissurarson: Voters Against the Elite

Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland, was a guest in Frosti Logason’s podcast on 19 September 2024. He said that recent elections in European countries suggested that a lot of voters who had voted … Continue reading

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Tupy: The More People, the Merrier

The summer of 2022 saw the publication of the book Superabundance; the Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet by Dr. Marian Tupy of the Cato Institute in Washington DC and Professor Gale Pooley. They … Continue reading

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Ridley: Lab-Leak Theory Most Plausible

Probably the covid virus which caused the 2020–2022 worldwide pandemic leaked out of a laboratory in Wuhan in China, although it is well nigh impossible to prove this, science writer Dr. Matt Ridley said at a meeting at the University … Continue reading

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