Members get access to exclusive live streams with FEE creators and top libertarian scholars. Read Academy members will learn how to be better representatives of the freedom philosophy and get to network with a community centered around libertarian values, self-improvement, and the pursuit of truth and wisdom.
🎓 The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) proudly presents the Read Academy, a new online learning platform for libertarians who seek to better understand and communicate the ideas of liberty.
Named after FEE’s visionary founder Leonard E. Read, the Read Academy offers online courses and book clubs featuring live and recorded sessions (including lectures, Q&A, and discussions), lesson reading lists, and community features. In these courses you can learn, among other topics:
The principles of liberty
Free-market, Austrian economics
The history of liberty and tyranny
Methods of advancing liberty
Self-improvement tips for libertarians
Skills for communicating liberty: writing, speaking, social media etc.
Become a founding student of the Read Academy by joining this Locals community at the Standard Supporter level, which only costs $5/month. If you join at the Premium Supporter level ($25/month), you will also be able to chat directly with a Read Academy educator to ask questions about any of the topics we cover. All supporters will have posting privileges and access to all our available courses and book clubs. Course materials will be hosted on Google Classroom, and live sessions will be hosted on Zoom.
The Read Academy’s inaugural course will be “FEE 101,” an introduction to FEE’s history, philosophy, and methodology taught by FEE’s Director of Content Dan Sanchez. The course will also cover the lives of FEE’s foremost inspirations like Leonard Read, Frédéric Bastiat, Henry Hazlitt, and Ludwig von Mises. And we will study some of their classic works, like Read’s “I, Pencil,” Bastiat’s The Law, and Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson.
Registered students will be learning alongside FEE content creators and Hazlitt Fellows including Maggie Anders, Ben Williams (PraxBen), Patrick Carroll, and Jess Gill.
FEE 101 Details
Course Length: 10 weekly lessons (one lecture per lesson)
Lectures Day and Time: Mondays at 5:30 PM ET via Zoom.
Date of First Lecture: October 2, 2023.
Recordings of the lectures will be available to all registered students.
FEE 101 Weekly Lessons
How Liberty Revolutionized the World
How FEE Revived the Liberty Movement
“I, Pencil” by Leonard E. Read: Emergent Order Vs. Central Planning
Inspirations for “I, Pencil”: Bastiat, Mises, and Hazlitt
The Law by Frédéric Bastiat Part 1: Rights and Government
The Law by Frédéric Bastiat Part 2: Tyranny and Plunder
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt Part 1: The Lesson and the Broken Window Fallacy
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt Part 2: The Lesson Applied
Elements of Libertarian Leadership by Leonard E. Read: How to Advance Liberty
FEE and the Cause of Freedom Today
To register for FEE 101, join this Locals community at the Standard or Premium Supporter level, and you will be provided with a registration link.
Other courses and book clubs will be added here later in September 2023.
Hope to see you in October!
— Dan Sanchez
Leonard E. Read, the founder of FEE, insisted that what liberty needs most is not better politics, propaganda, or marketing, but better thought leadership. What libertarians face, Read wrote, is not a “political action” problem, a “mass reformation problem,” or a “selling problem,” but a “leadership problem.”
Lead, Teach, Study
Thought leaders, Read clarified, “are to be found in every walk of life,” not just in fields like academia and journalism. And their spheres of influence will be of varying sizes. Some will be public figures with followings in the millions. Others will be moral and intellectual pillars of their communities: ideological good influences within their close circles. Leadership at both scales is required for liberty to live. Thus, effective libertarians are effective leaders.
Good thought leadership is the practice of leading minds out of the darkness of ignorance and into the light of understanding. Thus, effective leaders are effective teachers.
Furthermore, as Read wrote:
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Good afternoon friends,
Unfortunately, we will have to cancel tonight's lecture due to Dan feeling under the weather with a cold. We will keep you informed of if/when the lecture will be rescheduled.
I hope you all are staying warm and in good health with the seasonal changes.
Best wishes,
Maggie
Hello Read Academy Community!
Our third lesson of FEE 101 will be taking place this evening starting at 5pm ET. Feel free to join the call 5-10 minutes early to chat with others before the lecture begins. As usual, the lecture will be about an hour and then there will be 30 minutes for questions, and we will aim to wrap up around 7pm ET. The Zoom info can be accessed in the Google Classroom. Recordings of previous lectures are also available in the Google Classroom.
Hope to see you there!
