Alumni from Mises U manned a table at the Students for Liberty conference at Columbia University, and distributed vast amounts of literature about the Mises Institute (thanks). The students are John David Fernandez, Zachary Caceres, and JJ Proodian:
Source link: http://archive.mises.org/10827/students-at-columbia/
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Look to the day when this site will become more and more common place.
This is great! Nice to see the message being spread in an Ivy League of all places!
Good work, David! (We met at MisesU 2009.)
Make Murray Rothbard proud!
Great for these kids. They are sitting in Alfred Lerner hall, which didn’t exist when I was there. I graduated 1983, same class as the President. I’m proud of these young folks.
Once upon a time there was one Rothbard at Columbia, now there are (at least) three! Good luck guys!
“Once upon a time there was one Rothbard at Columbia, now there are (at least) three!”
One even dresses like Rothbard! Hehehehe….
We all must applaud these kids. It is probably not easy to be a defender of liberty at Columbia these days.
I don’t actually dress like Rothbard everyday…
They gave out or they sold literature?
Could a plebeian such as myself organize a literature distribution at Wayne State University?
Also, those three are encouraged to become members of the Mises community forums here on this site.
Why must proponents of Austrian thought insist on wearing the douchiest clothes? Seriously. Any chance these kids had at being taken seriously went right out the window when the guy on the left decided to rock the bow-tie.
I guess there’s a reason Austrians have never been accused of possessing much self-awareness.
Paul:
Seriously? Guy? That’s a kid. And that kid went out in public and made a stand and an effort for what he believes in, while you make obnoxious, anonymous and idiotic posts for free on the internet. Self-awareness?
“Why must proponents of Austrian thought insist on wearing the douchiest clothes?”
One of the very first lessons that Austrian thought taught me was the primacy of the subjectivity of the individual. One of the very first lessons I learned in life was that you get further with sugar or, if you prefer, honey rather than with sauerkraut.
I don’t think people should jump on you too much. You’ve made a solid contribution inasmuch as you’ve brought up a pertinent point; that being when one is engaged in proselytizing, one ought to be concerned about their presentation. Calling the kid, or at least his attire, a douche or douchey is the rhetorical equivalent of how you perceive rocking the bow tie. You’re not going to win many converts that way. Unless my impressions of human nature are royally messed up…
Why is it that the only 3 people who represent libertarianism at Columbia are trisomics in wheelchair or ugly nerds with braces and glasses bigger than their heads.
There is no hope for libertarianism.
Paul,
“Why must proponents of Austrian thought insist on wearing the douchiest clothes?”
Did you look at their faces ? The guy on the left is a wheel-chair trisomic and his face alone makes him look like a piece of shit retard that miraculously escaped the final solution.
His face of shit alone discredits the whole 3 stooges. Bow-tie or not, those are 3 douches and humanity would be better without them.
When will successful, tall, 6-pack and beautiful adults represent libertarianism.
Those 3 assholes demonstrate the libertarianism is for losers.
Heck, I’m walking away from this philosophy right now. Those 3 has got the be the ugliest and yuckiest bunch I’ve ever seen.
Robert Beggar,
“Calling the kid, or at least his attire, a douche or douchey is the rhetorical equivalent of how you perceive rocking the bow tie.”
Who cares about the bow-tie, he’s a wheel-chair trisomic, look at his face, it’s so ugly I can smell it’s stench from right here.
Those 3 stooges, especially the guy on the left, are so repulsive that I decided I’m becoming a stalinist statist.
Wow, you’re a real Internet tough guy ‘Working Poor.’
It’s unfortunate that the blog comments section can’t detect trolls..
To John David, Zachary, and JJ
Gentlemen, comrades!
Thank you for your contribution to the good fight… & in Murray “Mr. Libertarian” Rothbard’s alma mater no less! You made my day & it was my birthday…
)
Best regards from the foot of the Mont-Pèlerin in the land of the Switzers,
Christoph, alumnus of the 1993 LvMI Summer U.
P.S.: Oh, and pay no attention to the disparaging anonymous remarks above. Trolls belong under bridges or in damp caves & they do not support the light… ;o)
Working Poor,
You are a sick excuse of a human being and you sound quite like a NAZI saying things like “The guy on the left is a wheel-chair trisomic and his face alone makes him look like a piece of shit retard that miraculously escaped the final solution” your sickening comments have no place at a website like this. You should use your real name instead of hiding in anonymity because then perhaps you would not say such shameful things in a public forum.
Beyond that bigotry, I think it is great that there are students at Columbia so engaged. I am a college student and it is hard to stand out among your peers as a champion of liberty. Many of America’s college students have Obamafury or have been indoctrinated with various economically fallacious theories like Keynesianism or Marxism. But I have found when you are candid and passionate about liberty they have open minds and can be persuaded so keep up the good work and keep wroking the bow tie, fashion is on of the last vestiges of free will! .
Robert Brager wins this thread. A measured and resonant insight wrapped in a readily relatable anecdote. Deflected a legitimate criticism – that Austrians often have NO CLUE about how they’re perceived, and how a message is presented is ultimately as important as the message itself – with deprecation and a sense of humor. Acknowledge an Austrian shortcoming without apologizing or attacking. Well done.
If the Mises Institute knows what’s good for “the movement,” they’ll do well to make sure that the Robert Bragers of the world are its face. Oh, and some of you take your internetting waaaaay too seriously.
As the person sitting on the far right of the picture, I am amazed at how cruel some of these posts are. Those ridiculing JD should be ashamed of themselves for allowing their bigotry to bloom in the anonymity of the internet. For goodness sakes, do you people expect econ nerds to walk around looking like an Aryan ubermensch? We can debate the merits of a bowtie (the conference was strictly business attire), but leave the Nazis in their graves. I suspect such trolls are probably non-libertarians who hate the perspective for its ‘cruel’ ‘antihumanitarian’ perspective. Just a hunch. As far as whether the choice of a bow tie and ugly glasses as big as one’s head supports the movement… well:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/murraycolor150.jpg
Just saying.
Zach,
That stuff made me almost physically ill (although I have a theory there was only one vicious moron, and the other one was doing an insanely misguided spoof on him. Or it’s possible they were in fact the same single moron! The internet has more than its share of sick, sick denizens.)
I wanted to thank you for your efforts and express my delight that you are so easily able to shake off these disgusting things that were said about you and your compatriot and even mount a very clever counter-attack. Not easy to do if the blood begins to boil.
We can debate the merits of a bowtie (the conference was strictly business attire), but leave the Nazis in their graves. I suspect such trolls are probably non-libertarians who hate the perspective for its ‘cruel’ ‘antihumanitarian’ perspective.
Those ridiculing JD should be ashamed of themselves for allowing their bigotry to bloom in the anonymity of the internet.
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