During IFLRY’s Executive Committee in Santo Domingo in November of 2015, Vente Joven – the Venezuelan liberal youth organization – won the Freedom Award. With the upcoming Venezuelan elections, that turned out to be remarkably open, the Bureau wanted to…
Continue reading Interview: Pedro Urruchurtu of Venezuela’s Vente Joven – Part 1
No one votes in America. We all complain, we all speculate, but registering to vote 25 days ahead of schedule, driving to an elementary school after work – we won’t do it. Americans don’t vote, at least half of us. …
Continue reading No one votes in America, but Iowa Mattered – Mary Grace
The American higher education system was greatly impacted by the economic downturn in 2007. For many public universities, insurmountable budget cuts caused institutions across the country to inflate tuition costs and cut spending. As a result, students have been forced…
Continue reading Democrats and the Higher Education Crisis – Danika Kimball
On October 19th, Canada elected its 23rd Prime Minister. Justin Trudeau’s leadership brought the Liberal Party of Canada to a strong victory, forming a majority government after a decade-long Conservative administration. A long time coming, the Liberals won on the…
Continue reading What Trudeau means for the international community – Dunja Stajic
The Democratic race for the presidency is well under way, with just under two months to go until the Iowa Caucus. Polls indicate that Hillary Clinton is leading in the race so far, despite her opponent Bernie Sanders’ surprising wave…
Trump sways wildly from extreme to extreme, for example in 2001 in his bibliography he said that all drugs should be made legal, and even as late as April 2011 he was reported to have supported the legalization of all…
Continue reading Trump: Middle America’s Head Chieftain – Mary Grace
In the United States African-Americans not only deal with more depression, but often do not get diagnosed with it, when diagnosed, get less treatment, and have less adherence to treatment. This isn’t a disease, but a symptom of larger problems.…
Continue reading Black People are Depressed (and No One is Realizing it) – Mary Grace
Last year saw the largest number of refugees worldwide since the Second World War, and this year the numbers don’t look to be reducing. There’s an aspect to this crisis which isn’t accounted for within the UN Convention on the…
Continue reading Climate Refugees: The Crisis that isn’t Recognised – Harriet Ainscough
You can read an introductory post to Krijn’s series on liberal political philosophy here. Thomas Hobbes was an early modern English philosopher. In his treatise Of liberty and Necessity, Hobbes defines individual liberty as follows: “Liberty is the absence of…
The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center was an attack on a symbol of freedom and cooperation. Just a few days after the attack, the Security Council on behalf of the United Nations pushed through new terror legislation…
Continue reading The War Against Terror is a Bigger Threat than Terrorism Itself – Eirik Natlandsmyr
