Past Junto Events

	C. Bradley Thompson Video of his talk “Separation of School and State: The Case for Abolishing America’s Government Schools” from the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights: tiny.cc/ThompsonSchool May 2, 2013 - “American Education: Reform or Revolution?”
	Matt Welch editor in chief Reason, the libertarian magazine of “Free Minds and Free Markets,” Read more about him at: tiny.cc/WelchReason April 4, 2013: “The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong with America.”
	Brink Lindsey senior fellow, Cato Institute: trade policy, globalization, U.S. social & cultural history, nature of human capital. Currently researching economic growth and policy barriers that impede it. Read more about Brink: tiny.cc/LindseyCato March 7, 2013 – “The Folly of Nostalgianomics” Brink’s term for the celebration of the post-World War II quarter century that has been popular among commentators like Paul Krugman.
	Ivan Eland sr. fellow, dir, Center on Peace and Liberty, Independent Inst., author “The Empire has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign PolicyExposed” and “No War for Oil: U.S. Dependency and the Middle East.” Visit his page: tiny.cc/Eland February 7, 2013: “Putting ‘Defense’ Back Into U.S. Defense Policy: Rethinking U.S. Security in the 21st Century” May 1999: Dangerous Consequences of Clinton’s war in the Balkans.
	Donald J. Boudreaux George Mason U. econ. prof., author “Hypocrites & Half-Wits: A Daily Dose of Sanity from Cafe Hayek.”Read his essay at: cafehayek.com January 3, 2013: Half-Wits & Hypocrites: Dealing with Economic Nonsense July 2, 2009 February 2003: How Capitalism Leads to a Cleaner Environment & Better Health
	Wayne Leighton prof. econ., Universidad Francisco Marroquín (UFM) Guatemala, exec. dir. The Antigua Forum, co-author book“Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers: The Economic Engine of Political Change.” Visit his page at: PoliticalEntrepreneurs.com December 6, 2012
	Greg Rehmke program director Economic Thinking, programs for high school, homeschool and college. Visit his site: tiny.cc/gRehmke November 1, 2012: The Entrepreneur Army September 4, 2008: Price Shocks, Technology, and the Journey to the Center of the Earth
	Gary Hoover read his bio: HooversWorld.com/gary-hoover  October 4, 2012: Think Like an Entrepreneur April 2005: Creating & Building Lasting Enterprises
	Gary Johnson Libertarian Party Pres. GaryJohnson2012.com September 6, 2012 -  update on his campaign, Q&A.
	Richard Kostelanetz writer and artist. He often attends Junto. He’s been a contributing/advisory editor of many arts journals, the author of many books, among them “Political Essays” and “More On Innovative Music(ian)s” Visit his site: RichardKostelanetz.com September 6, 2012
	Gary Jason Liberty magazine, businessman, philosophy teacher & writer. Senior editor of online magazine Liberty, formerly the paper magazine Liberty: LibertyUnbound.com He’s author of the forthcoming book “Dangerous Thoughts.” Read more by and about him at: ProfGaryJason.com  August 2, 2012 – Classical Liberal Ethics and Immigration
	Tyler Cowen Prof. economics George Mason U. & Center for the Study of Public Choice. Visit his very active blog: MarginalRevolution.com Many articles about & by him: tiny.cc/TylerC  July 5, 2012 – The Path Out of the Great Stagnation? June 4, 2009 – Is the Web Dumbing Down Our Culture?
	Gene Epstein Economics editor Barrons. Cover & feature stories on economic & social trends, book reviews. Read his articles: tiny.cc/GeneEpstein  June 7, 2012 “Econospinning: How to Read Between the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers” is his 2006 book. It cuts through the economic misinformation commonly reported in today’s media.
	Ilana Mercer author Classical liberal column bit.ly/MercerWorldNet IlanaMercer.com May 3, 2012: Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa.
	Robert Higgs sr. fellow political economy, author Leviathan. Editor Independent Institute’s quarterly magazine Independent Review: tiny.cc/Higgs  April 5, 2012: “Likely Politico-economic Legacies of the Current Crisis” April 2, 2009: “Replaying the New Deal: A Very Bad Idea“
	Donald Luskin Coauthor I am John Galt: Today’s heroic innovators building the world & the villainous parasites destroying it. It shows parallels: Steve Jobs & Roark, Paul Krugman & Toohey, etc. iAmJohnGalt.com Feb. 2, 2012: What would Howard Roark do about Paul Krugman?
	Tibor Machan libertarian, teaches business ethics & philosophy at Chapman U. Visit his site: tiny.cc/Tibor  January 2012: Liberty vs. Stimulus January 8, 2009: Enemies of Private Property Rights: A Survey of Old and New Attacks on the Right to Private Property November 2004: Animal Rights: A New Threat to Liberty July 2002: Is Free Will Mystical? February 1998: The Epic Clash of Cultures (?) October 1995: Some autobiographical reflections February 1993: Who Has Which Rights? (with Murray Franck) November 1992: Economic versus Ethical Individualism
	David D. Friedman prof. law, anarcho-capitalist, author The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism. His site: davidDFriedman.com His blog: davidDFriedman.blogspot.comDec.1, 2011 David Friedman spoke on ”Legal Systems Very Different from Ours.” He’s studied the legal systems of modern gypsies, imperial China, Periclean Athens, the Cheyenne Indians, Saga period Iceland and more.
	Tracy Quan Tracy Quan labels herself on Twitter as: “Commonwealth babe. Novelist. Omnivore. Secular Catholic. Cafeteria atheist. Caffeine dependent. Unrepentant flânoozy. Love Guru.” Visit her site: TracyQuan.net  Nov. 3, 2012 “Highways and byways of the sex worker industry”
	Janine R. Wedel prof. public policy, George Mason U. JanineWedel.info & janinewedel.info/books.html “…sweeps from Poland & Russia to Cambridge & D.C. [she’s] reinvented the study of public administration for an era of blurred roles and secret etworks….a must-read for all who care about the future of government – even the possibility of decent government” says James K. Galbraith.Oct. 6, 2011 Shadow Elite: How the World’s New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government & the Free Market JanineWedel.info/books.html
	Richard A. Epstein www.manhattan-institute.org/html/epstein.htm Sept. 1, 2011 Is the administrative state consistent with the rule of law? based on his book: Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration & the Rule of Law April 1997: Our Inalienable Right to Health Care

 

April 1991 through July 2005

Celebration of the 99th birthday of Ayn Rand 
and the 93rd birthday of Ronald Reagan.
February 2004

Memorial for John Perry,
a NYC police officer & Junto attendee, lost on 9/11
October 2001

And conversations with featured speakers:

Charles Adams
March 1997: Taxation.

Dennis Ainsworth
April 2002: Capital Consumption 1965 to the present: its causes, consequences and cures

June Arunga
July 2004: Why Africans are Abandoning Africa

George B.N. Ayittey
author of “Africa Betrayed” and “Africa in Chaos”
June 1999

John Baden
November 1994: Progressive Era Reforms: The American Counter-Revolution
December 1997

Michael Balboa
July 1994: Economic and Political Trends in Certain Less-developed Countries

Sallie Baliunas
June 1997: Global Warming: What the Facts Are

Randy E. Barnett
December 1995: The Rights Retained by the People: The History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment
November 1998: Liberty, Justice & The Rule Of Law

Caroline Baum
May 1994: Analysis of Financial Markets

Tom Bethell
October 1999: The Noblest Triumph: Property & Prosperity Through The Ages

Robert Bidinotto
February 1995: The Criminal Justice: The Legal System versus the Individual
February 1997: How to Present the Ideas of Individualism to Ordinary People
March 2004

Terry Blodgett
August 2001: Tracing the lost tribes of the Israelites

David Boaz
August 1991: 400 Years Of Failure: The Lesson Of Drug Prohibition

James Bovard
July 1995: Government Waste and Abusive Taxation
April 1999: The Rise of the State & the Demise of the Citizen
February 2004: Terrorism & Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil

Bill Bradford
August 1993: Economics and Ecology, Sophisticated and Vulgar (CT)
August 1993: Rand, Paterson, Lane & the Origins of the Modern Libertarian Movement.
May 1995: The future of liberty and the role libertarians will play in that future

Harry Browne
December 1994: Government doesn’t work, and I want to get rid of as much of it as is practical

David Ciocca
August 2000: Investing in the Internet Era

Tyler Cowen
George Mason University
December 1999: How Capitalism Liberates The Arts (?)
January 2004: Civilization: The Case for a Free Society

Eugene R. Dattel
April 1996: Japan’s Failed Attempt at Global Financial Dominance

James DeLong
December 1998: Property Matters

Tom DiLorenzo
January 1999: The Food and Drink Police

Richard Ebeling
October 1992: How the Principles of the Declaration of Independence have been Subverted (with Jacob G. Hornberger)

Marty Edelston
July 1992: Battle plan for American Business

Ivan Eland
May 1999: Dangerous Consequences of Clinton’s war in the Balkans.

Peter Ferrara
May 2000: A battle plan for Social Security

Thomas Fleming
June 1998: Liberty!

Murray Franck
December 1992: Individual Rights
February 1993: Who Has Which Rights? (with Tibor Machan)

Judge Marvin Frankel
June 1992: Adversary Justice

Benjamin Franklin
A visitor from the 18th century.
September 1992

Jeffrey Friedman
June 2002: Public Ignorance as a Reason for Libertarianism
October 2004: The Politics of Ignorance

Marshall Fritz
September 1997: Separation of Schools and State

Michael Fumento
May 2001: BioEvolution: How Biotechnology Is Changing Our World

John Fund
April 2000: Why all the political Opinion Polls are wrong?

Arthur E. Gandolfi
August 1994: Sex, Economics and the Meaning of Life.

John Taylor Gatto
March 1993: Confederacy of Dunces: The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling

Scott Douglas Gerber
September 1998: The Declaration of Independence & Constitutional Interpretation

Henry Gifford
March 2003: Fire Science & The World Trade Center’s vulnerable architecture

Mike Godwin
Center for Democracy & Technology
July 1999: The American Revolution

Bettina Bien Greaves
September 1999: Human Action After 50 Years.

Gary Greenberg
June 1994: Ancient Israel and Modern America: The Dangerous Parallels

Martin Gross
February 2000: The Conspiracy of Ignorance

Dan Grossman
June 1991: Luck and Careers
July 2001: The perfect deal

Milo Hamilton
October 2000: Rice: The First Grain

Robin Hanson
George Mason University
November 2001

Dean Hazel
July 1996

Stephen Hicks
September 1994: The Love of Money

Jeremy Hildreth
June 2001: Cuba: A libertarian Perspective

Jacob G. Hornberger
October 1992: How the Principles of the Declaration of Independence have been Subverted (with Richard Ebeling)
April 1994: The Dangers of Socialized Medicine
March 2001: Libertarianism vs. The Moral Bankruptcy of the left and right

Peter Huber
May 1998: Law & disorder in CyberSpace: Abolish the FCC & Let Common Law Rule

Edward L. Hudgins
November 1993: The Role of Devotees of Freedom in Politics
September 2002: Can Ayn Rand Conquer Washington?

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
December 1996: Foundations of American Statism: The Economic Impact of the Civil War

Jerome Huyler
author of “Locke in America: The Moral Philosophy of the Founding Era”
May 2005

Mitchell Jones
April 1991: Chlorinating: The Greatest Scandal In History
September 1991: What Makes A Good Painting (with Susan Slyman)

Stephen Kagann
March 1992: The Corporate Headquarters Complex – And The Future Of New York City

Steve Keeley
October 1992: About his world travels

David Kelley
Founder, The Objectivist Center
May 1993: Consequences of the Pursuit of Happiness Vs. Sacrifice During the 1980′s
February 1998: The Epic Clash of Cultures (?)
January 2002
June 2004: Can the Muslim World Modernize? The Case of Morocco

Laurel Kenner
January 2003: Practical Speculation in an Uncertain World (with Victor Niederhoffer)

Saul Kent
October 1996: The Prospect of Living in Good Health to the Age of 150 and beyond

Thomas L. Knapp
Rational Review.com
April 2003: Deadly Confusions: Libertarianism & War

Alan Charles Kors
May 2004

Richard Kostelanetz
July 2003: author, “Soho: The Rise and Fall of an Artists’ Colony”

Lawrence Kudlow
Kudlow & Co., CNBC
April 1998: American Abundance: The New Economic & Moral Prosperity
December 2004: What?s Ahead for 2005? A post-election look at the economy and the stock market

Steven Landsburg
March 2002: More Sex is Safer Sex, and Other Surprises About the Way Markets Work

Sarah Lawrence
August 2002: Parenting: The Philosophy and Practice of Taking Children Seriously

Pierre Lemieux
February 1996: The Individualist Sentiment
July 1998: Liberty & Sex

Jules Leopold
October 1991: What Is Predictable?

Will Lewis
January 1993: Music of Management

Carl Liedhom
Michigan State University
May 1996: Microenterprises in Developing Countries

Felix Livingston
January 1995: Homo Oeconomicus: A Man for All Seasons

Herbert London
December 1993: Current Problems in the US

John R. Lott Jr.
November 1999: More Guns, Less Crime

Marisa Manley
April 1992: Why Laws Backfire

Steve Mariotti
March 1998: Teaching Inner-City Kids to Start and Run a Business

Stanley Mason
August 1998: Creative Spark of Invention

Bill McCarthy
February 1992: ‘?Vice Cop,” a book about his years as head of NYPD’s Morals Division
February 1994: Current Issues of Gun Control

John McCormack
September 1993: How Property Rights Can Be Used to Protect Wildlife and Wilderness

John L. McCormack
January 1996: Conspiracy Theory

Wendy McElroy
author of “Individualist Feminism of the Nineteenth Century”
October 1997: How Politically Correct Feminism is Hurting Women
July 2005

John McGinnis
November 1997: Biology and Law

Gabriella Megyesi
August 2004: Lessons from Lands without Liberty

Perry Metzger
September 2000: The Future of Technology

Stephen Moore
May 2002: It’s Getting Better All the Time: The Greatest Trends of the Past 100 Years

Deroy Murdock
February 2002: We?re too nice: What libertarians are doing wrong, what we can do better

Charles Murray
American Enterprise Institute, author of “Human Accomplishment”
December 2003

Victor Niederhoffer
July 1991: Economic Ecology: The Home Life, Distribution, and Abundance of Commodity Players
August 1992: First Anniversary Party at the Niederhoffer’s
September 1992: The Ecology of Public Government and the Market
January 1993: Education of a Speculator
January 1994: What Can You Learn from Games and Hobbies
June 1995: Camouflage And Other Deceptions
September 1996: Music and Speculation (with pianist Robert Schrade)
June 2000: Approaches to understanding the financial market
September 2001: FDA delays: how to profit from them
December 2001: Culture, Capitalism, American Game; ?Songs of Speculation?
January 2003: Practical Speculation in an Uncertain World (with Laurel Kenner)
September 2004: Deception in the Stock Market

Walter Olson
March 1997: The Excuse Factory

Jane Orient
August 1997: Healthy Skepticism About National Health Care

Roger Pilon
March 1995: On the Demise and Rebirth of Constitutional Government

Virginia Postrel
February 1999: The Future and Its Enemies

Jim Powell
May 1991: Capitalism & Civilization: How Peaceful Commerce Promotes Social Justice.
May 1992: Why the Morals of the Marketplace are Better than the Morals of Government
July 1993: How Markets Generate Vital Knowledge for Human Progress
September 1995: Intriguing, instructive, sometimes heart-warming stories about great heroes of liberty
August 1996: Heroes Who Defy Tyrants: Raul Wallenberg, Natan Sharansky, & Others
December 2000: The Triumph of Liberty
November 2003: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

Douglas Rasmussen
April 1995: The Communitarian Challenge to Liberty

Gregory Rehmke
Program director of EconomicThinking.org
August 1999: Free Market Incentives
January 2001: How markets can deal with world emergencies
October 2002: Promoting Free-Market Ideas Around the World
September 2003: Socialism in US Electric Utilities & Its Role in the Recent Blackout
August 2004

George Reisman
July 1997: Everyone’s Stake in Capitalism

Kenneth Rendell
December 1991: The Criteria That Establishes Values In Different Collecting Areas: Some Thoughts On Their Validity And On Investing In Collectibles
March 1994: How Human Nature Propels Bad Forgeries Into Major Literary Hoaxes.

Adam Robinson
October 1993: What Smart Students Know

Arthur Robinson
November 2000: Extending human lifespan

Jim Rogers
October 1994: Economic, Political, Investment and Social Observations from an around-the-world motorcycle trip
June 2003: author, “Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Investor’s Road Trip”

Michael Rothschild
November 1991: Bionomics

Robert Schrade
December 1992: Life with Music

Jack Schwartzman
editor-in-chief of “Fragments,” an international individualist magazine
August 1995

Todd Seavey
November 2002: Libertarians, Smoking & Insanity: How ideology affects ideas about freedom & health

Larry Sechrest
March 1996: Hayek

Hans F. Sennholz
November 1995: Pillars Of The Welfare State

Amity Shlaes
March 1999: Taxation: The Greedy Hand

Tim Slagle
April 2001: Libertarian humor

Susan Slyman
September 1991: What Makes A Good Painting (with Mitchell Jones)

Fred Smith
November 1996: Marketing the Virtues of Freedom in a World of Rational Ignorance
March 2000: Electrical power crisis in California
December 2002: Heaven or Hell: The Hope and Threat of Globalization
August 2003: Corporate Aftershock: Economic Liberty Before and After Enron

David Ramsay Steele
April 1997: The Anti-Technology Movement as the Radical Alternative to Capitalism

Brett Steenbarger
July 2000: Psychological biases and weakness can be overcome

Richard W. Stevens
February 2005: Civilian Disarmament and Genocide

Stephen Stigler
November 1992: How Statistics Can Lead to a Wrong Decision

John Stossel
ABC News
April 2004

Michael Strong
March 2005: Entrepreneurs: Engineers of World Prosperity

Jacob Sullum
senior editor of “Reason” magazine
June 2005

Alex Tabarrok
October 2003: Terrorism Futures, Information Markets & a New Form of Democracy

Joan Kennedy Taylor
April 1993: Reclaiming the Mainstream
January 2000: Sex, men and women in the market place

Frank Tipler
January 1997: The Physics of Immortality: There is No Limit to Progress

William Tucker
January 1992: Running Schools As A Business

Jesse Walker
Reason magazine
May 2003: Broadcasters and the State

George Walsh
June 1993: Rousseau, Egalitarism and Collectivism

Stephanie Winston
March 1992: Personal and office organization

Jim Wynne
June 1993: Why Science Matters

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The above list of Junto speakers from April 1991 through July 2005 is incomplete. Please contact us if you have more, or more accurate, information.