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...Institutional psychiatry should be regarded as a threat to your freedom." Dr. Thomas S. Szasz, a professor of Psychiatry at the State University of New York, told an audience of roughly 200 people last night in a lecture sponsored by the Harvard Libertarian Association...
Even the most libertarian governments, moreover, meddle with the marketplace, if only by regulating the money supply, setting import duties and granting tax advantages to selected economic sectors. But unlike the socialist, who sees the state as the main engine
...Union who frequently took its cases before the Supreme Court; of a stroke; in Hollywood, Calif. Wirin fought for workers during the '30s, helped restore the rights and property of Japanese Americans following World War II, and battled the death penalty as unconstitutional. In the A.C.L.U.'s libertarian tradition, he also counseled fascists, Nazis, religious fanatics, and criminals, including Sirhan Sirhan. Said Wirin: "The rights of all persons are wrapped in the same constitutional bundle as those of the most hated member of the community...
...topping his class. He went on to the University of Montreal law school, then spent two years studying politics and economics at Harvard and in Paris and London. He returned to Quebec in 1949 as a labor lawyer and economist. Trudeau flirted with socialism and became an outspoken civil libertarian, fighting against the autocratic and nationalist provincial government of Premier Maurice Duplessis. Early on, Trudeau accepted the idea of Quebec as a nation and a people, but never saw the necessity that it be a political state. As he later wrote in his political journal Cite Libre (Open City), ethnically...
...Chronicle will have straight news about Cambridge and the University on its front page and features and editorials written from the libertarian perspective on its inside pages, Norquist said...