By Bruce Pardy | Published by Brownstone Institute Many citizens of the West believe that they live in free societies, or something close. But as time goes on, public authorities increasingly insist on having a say in everything. People cannot build things on their own land without permits. They cannot run businesses without approvals and […]
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Livestream Recording of the 2024 Rand Debate now available The 2024 Rand Debate, co-hosted by Augustine College and First Freedoms Foundation, saw Queen’s Law Professor Bruce Pardy debate Wilfred Laurier’s Professor David Haskell on the topic of virtue vs. freedom, inspired by an article Bruce wrote published by the Brownstone Institute: Freedom and Virtue: Friends […]
Freedom requires privacy and a social structure, which promotes non-aggression, which in turn requires the freedom to implement the necessary competitive structures to accomplish this.