Junto this Thur., Ayn Rand Meetup upcoming Sunday

Contents
* NEW Junto meeting Sept. 1
* Upcoming speakers
* NEW NYC Ayn Rand Meetup, new date: Sun., Sept. 4
* NEW Ayn Rand Center in DC: Sept. 11--Lessons for future
* NYCjunto-discuss list
* About this newsletter
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Junto is a group that shares information
and discusses current issues...
plus presents speakers to talk with us:

Richard Epstein
"Is the administrative state consistent with the rule of law?"

Thursday, Sept. 1

Admission Free -- No reservation necessary
* We'll socialize from 7:00pm.
* The meeting begins at ABOUT 7:30pm
    with a discussion of current issues and events.
* The featured speaker is introduced at ABOUT 8:00pm.
* The meeting will continue to ABOUT 10:00pm.

General Society Library,
20 West 44 St., between 5th and 6th Aves., NYC
near the Grand Central Terminal

Subway: 4, 5, 6, S to Grand Central -- 42nd St.
or
B, D, F, 7 to 42nd Street -- Sixth Ave. at Bryant Park
or
A, C, E, N, Q, R, S, 1, 2, 3 to Times Square -- 42nd St.

Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M42, M98, M101, M102, M104, Q32

Train: MTA Metro-North Railroad to Grand Central 

Car: Some private parking facilities in the area. Parking on
side streets is metered, limited to specific days and times.

Please note: 

* Junto is not the usual sort of meeting with a long speech
followed by Q & A. Junto's invited speakers give a short
presentation and are challenged to defend their assertions. 

* Discussions are intense, but polite. Participation by all
attendees is highly encouraged.

* Junto meets on the first Thursday of every month, at the
General Society Library, 20 West 44 St., NYC, between
5th and 6th Aves., near Grand Central Terminal
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This talk, "Is the administrative state consistent with
the rule of law?" is based on Richard's newest book:
"Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration
and the Rule of Law".
    This book will be published on Nov. 15, 2011,
Harvard U. Press. It can be ordered now Amazon:
tiny.cc/EpsteinBook

NEW -- About this book:
Following a vast expansion in the twentieth century,
government is beginning to creak at the joints under
its enormous weight.
    The signs are clear: a bloated civil service, low approval
ratings for Congress and the President, increasing federal-state
conflict, rampant distrust of politicians and government
officials, record state deficits, and major unrest among
public employees.
    In this compact, clearly written book, the noted legal scholar
Richard Epstein advocates a much smaller federal government,
arguing that our over-regulated state allows too much
discretion on the part of regulators, which results in arbitrary,
unfair decisions, rent-seeking, and other abuses.
    Epstein bases his classical liberalism on the twin pillars
of the rule of law and of private contracts and property rights
-- an overarching structure that allows private property to
keep its form regardless of changes in population, tastes,
technology, and wealth.
    This structure also makes possible a restrained public
administration to implement limited objectives.
    Government continues to play a key role as night-watchman,
but with the added flexibility in revenues and expenditures to
attend to national defense and infrastructure formation.
    Although no legal system can eliminate the need for
discretion in the management of both private and public affairs,
predictable laws can cabin the zone of discretion and permit
arbitrary decisions to be challenged.
    Joining a set of strong property rights with sound but
limited public administration could strengthen the rule of law,
with its virtues of neutrality, generality, clarity, consistency,
and forwardlookingness, and reverse the contempt and
cynicism that have overcome us.
    More info about this book:
tiny.cc/EpsteinHarvard

Richard is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at NYU
Law School. He's an expert on many areas of the law,
including property, torts, land use, civil procedure, contract
law, workers' compensation and Roman law.
    He's author of "Takings: Private Property and Eminent
Domain," "Mortal Peril: Our Inalienable Right to Health Care,"
"Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical
Liberalism", and "Simple Rules for a Complex World".
    He's the Peter and Kirsten Senior Fellow at the Hoover
Institution and senior lecturer at the University of Chicago
where he was on the regular faculty from 1973 to 2010.
    He teaches mainly at NYU. Read more about him and find
links to many of his writings at:
tiny.cc/RichEpstein and at
tiny.cc/EpsteinBioLinks

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Come to Junto, meet the upcoming speakers:

* Oct. 6, Janine R. Wedel, prof. public policy, George Mason U.
"Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers
Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market"
    Her talk will be based on this book of the same title:
janinewedel.info/books.html
    Learn about her at:
JanineWedel.info

* Nov. 3, Kathryn Schultz, author "Being Wrong". What it
means to be in error. Why people tend to assume they're
right about most everything. Error is a fundamental human
condition and should be celebrated.
BeingWrongBook.com/author

* Dec. 1, David Friedman, prof. law, Santa Clara U., Liberty
magazine contributing editor, anarcho-capitalist
davidDFriedman.com

* Jan. 5, 2012, Ilana Mercer, "Lessons for America from
Post-Apartheid South Africa"
bit.ly/MercerBook
bit.ly/MercerColumn 

* Feb. 2, 2012, Ayn Rand's 107th birthday celebration.
Speaker Donald Luskin market commentator.
His subject will be announced later.
    He co-wrote "I am John Galt: Today's Heroic Innovators
Building the World and the Villainous Parasites Destroying It."
    It introduces you to real-life titans who've lived their lives
like Rand's fictional heroes and the malefactors who've lived
like her fictional villains:
Steve Jobs as Howard Roark,
Paul Krugman as Ellsworth Toohey,
John Allison as John Galt,
Bill Gates as Henry Rearden and
Barney Frank as Wesley Mouch, etc.
    Watch Donald's short video on Amazon:
tiny.cc/LuskinVideo

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New York City Ayn Rand Meetup, Sun., Sept. 4
    Delayed by storm from August

Come join us this upcoming Sunday at 3:00pm.
There’ll also be an Ayn Rand Meetup on Sun., Sept. 25th.

As always, we'll talk about Ayn Rand, her works, Objectivist
life, challenges, options, associations and knowledge.
Give and take, open to all, no charge, no reservations.
It's at The Midtown Restaurant, 155 East 55 St, between
3rd and Lexington Avenues, in Manhattan, free.

Benny Pollack, Ayn Rand Meetup organizer says:"Join our
group of regular Objectivists for a lively discussion on topics
related to Ayn Rand and Objectivist philosophy in general.

"Please join us. If you are already versed in the topic, want
to learn or just want to spend an intellectually stimulating
afternoon, please come. I hope to see you all there."
    The Ayn Rand Meetup is almost always on the last Sunday
of each month.
    Learn more about it at:
AynRand.meetup.com/8

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Ayn Rand Center event in DC: Sept. 11--Lessons for the future

On Thur., Sept. 8th these questions will be discussed at this
half-day symposium:
    What lessons have we learned since the horrific 9/11 attacks,
ten years ago?
    With two unresolved wars and a Middle East in upheaval,
how should we evaluate America’s policy in that volatile region?
    How will rebellions and protests across the region -- from
Tunisia to Syria -- impact vital American interests?
    What lies ahead for U.S. relations with Israel -- and with
a likely soon-to-be nuclear Iran?

1:00 to 2:05pm
* Upheavals in the Middle East:
Assessing the Political Landscape
    What lessons can be drawn from the popular rebellions in
Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and elsewhere in the Arab-Islamic world?
    Will these uprisings lead to fundamental changes to the
political landscape?
    Who stands to gain the most from these
changes? What impact might they have for U.S. interests in
the region?
    Panelists include: Yaron Brook, Efraim Karsh,
Aaron David Miller, Daniel Pipes with Moderator Elan Journo.

2:10 to 3:15pm
* The Islamist Threat:
From AfPak to Jyllands-Posten and Times Square
    In the years since the attacks of 9/11, what have we learned
about the nature of the enemy that struck that day?
    What have we learned from the U.S. response, under
G.W. Bush and now Barack Obama, that should shape current
and future policy?
    If a failure of pre-9/11 policy-thinking was to neglect
"connecting the dots," what patterns or trends can be identified
now about developments in the Middle East, Europe (such as
the furor over cartoons of Mohammad) and North America?
    Panelists include: Peter Brookes, John David Lewis with
Moderator Elan Journo.

3:25 to 4:30pm
* Iran, Israel and the West
    If -- or when -- Iran gains nuclear-weapons capability,
what would be the impact on the region, on Israel, and on
American interests?
    What lessons can be learned from America’s policy toward
Iran -- not only in recent years, but going back to the
emergence of the Islamist regime in Teheran?
    What policy options are available to the U.S. for responding
to Iran and its Islamist affiliates?
    Panelists include: Elan Journo, Efraim Karsh, Clare Lopez,
Michael Rubin with Moderator Yaron Brook.

Confirmed participants include:
Yaron Brook,
    President & Executive Directory, Ayn Rand Institute
Peter Brookes,
    Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs,
    The Heritage Foundation
Elan Journo, Fellow & Director of Policy Research,
    Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights
Efraim Karsh,
    Director, Middle East Forum
John David Lewis,
    Visiting Associate Professor, Duke University
Clare Lopez,
    Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy
Aaron David Miller,
    Public Policy Scholar,
    Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Daniel Pipes,
    President, Middle East Forum
Michael Rubin,
    Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

For more info and to RSVP:
tiny.cc/Rand9-11

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