Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 250. This is the audio of my presentation to the 2018 PFS meeting on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Powerpoint slides embedded below. Higher quality video and youtube to follow in due course. Related material: KOL001 | “The (State’s) Corruption of (Private) Law” (PFS 2012)
After the floods comes the pestilence. Even as the rest of us are focusing all our energies on making sure that epidemics and sheer psychological trauma aren’t going to bring our people devastated by floods to the brink of their endurance, here is a bizarre person, a certain P C George, MLA from Poonjar, Kerala, … Continue reading How to Deal with Male Chauvinist Piorge: Ten Tips →
We, a group of alumni of IIT Kanpur and others as students, researchers, faculty, staff and other community members affiliated with the same institute strongly condemn the arrest of IIT Kanpur alumna Sudha Bharadwaj (Integrated MSc., Mathematics, 1979-1984) and other activists namely, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Gautam Navlakha and Varavara Rao, and the raiding of … More Statement Demanding Immediate Release of Writers, Activists
Following is the final statement with the signatures as they were when it was closed for purposes of releasing to the media and sent to us by the initiators of the campaign. We, the undersigned, are shocked by the serial raids across the country on the homes of activists and public intellectuals who are critical … Continue reading Joint Statement Condemning Arrest of Activists and Public Intellectuals
The following is a statement by WOMEN AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND STATE REPRESSION (WSS) against the raids on and arrests of activists and intellectuals in different cities.
Guest post by VAIBHAV SINGH रामचरित मानस में सुन्दर कांड में एक पंक्ति आती है, जो कही तो विभीषण के मुंह से गई है लेकिन वह आज के लोकतंत्र पर भी लागू होती है। चौपाई में विभीषण कहते हैं- ‘सुनहु पवनसुत रहनि हमारी। जिमि दसनन्हि महुं जीभ बिचारी।’ यानी विभीषण कहते हैं कि मैं ऐसे … Continue reading ‘अरबन फासिज्म’ की शुरुआत : वैभव सिंह
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2018-08-21%20Patrick%20MacFarlane.mp3"][/audio]Patrick MacFarlane of LibertyWeekly.net joins us to discuss his podcast on libertarian legal theory. Today we look at his work on the Supreme Court's Masterpiece cake ruling and on the entrapment defense in the FBI's Muslim patsy cases.
The recent murder of an SFI activist, Abhimanyu, at the Maharajah’s College, Ernakulam, allegedly by activists of another student organization, the Campus Front, has once again triggered a series of intense campaigns against the Popular Front of India (PFI), which is accused of having terror links, even with the ISIS. This last claim has become … Continue reading Who feeds whom? Reflections on the Left responses to the Abhimanyu murder case
സത്യം പറഞ്ഞാൽ അഭിമന്യു എന്ന വിദ്യാർത്ഥിയുടെ ഞെട്ടിക്കുന്ന കൊലപാതകത്തിനു ശേഷം ആ ചെറുപ്പക്കാരൻറെ മാതാവിൻറെ വിലാപം മാത്രമാണ് ഇപ്പോഴും മുഴങ്ങിക്കേൾക്കുന്നത്. ആ ശബ്ദം മനസ്സിൽ നിന്ന് മായുന്നതേയില്ല. അതുകൊണ്ട് ഹാദിയാകേസ് നടന്ന കാലത്ത് സിപിഎമ്മിൻറെ സൈബർ ബുദ്ധിജീവി-ഗുണ്ടകൾ ഉണ്ടാക്കിയെടുത്ത ആയുധങ്ങൾ അവർ ഫേസ്ബുക്കിലും പുറത്തും പ്രയോഗിക്കുന്നതു കണ്ടിട്ടും പ്രത്യേകിച്ച് ഒന്നും തോന്നിയില്ല.
