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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
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:
"It is ...
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!
Dear students,
Welcome to FEE 101, the inaugural course of the Read Academy. Thank you for being a “founding student” of what will hopefully be a long-lasting program that significantly advances liberty education.
Linked below is the reading list for the first weekly lesson: “How Liberty Revolutionized the World.” Please read all the articles before the first lecture, which will be Monday, October 2, 2023 at 5:30 PM ET. There are thirteen articles assigned, but they are quite short, except for three of them (numbers 9, 10, and 12). I sorted them so that they build on each other, so please read them in the given order.
All of the articles were written by me, your instructor for this course. The reason I didn’t assign other authors for this lesson is that, throughout my liberty education career, I have endeavored to condense, distill, and explain the ideas of great thinkers into digest-style essays which paraphrase and quote from their great works, often pulling from different texts....
