The Digital Library of Liberty & Power
incorporating the Guillaumin Collection of the Great Books of Liberty
The New Website The Digital Library of Liberty & Power has been redesigned. What you are now reading is the new “front end” to the website which has been in existence since June 2010. We have kept the old website (davidmhart.com/liberty) as the Repository of the texts in their various formats (HTML, facsimile PDF, and … Read more
ince 14 Feb. 2022 the site has had 96,318 users (i.e. visitors) and 132,180 page views (most visitors view more than 1 page per visit), and 3,510 files have been downloaded (probably PDFs).
This recent election was the first election I have observed close up since my return to Australia in 2020. My wife and I haven’t voted for 47 years. The last time was in 1975 when we voted for the Workers Party, which, if you don’t know, was very libertarian in spite of their provocative name … Read more
“Fade to White” The party politicization (pro-Trump republican) of Liberty Fund and its rapid turning away from the Founder’s “original intent” of promoting long-term educational and academic goals is the subject of an article in this month’s Indianapolis Monthly magazine. As the victim of the first round of purges of those who defended that vision … Read more
The Advertiser of Monday, 31 March, 1997 had a front page article on an “ANZAC Day School Pack” which has been devloped by the Federal government and the Australian Army for use in schools on the eve of ANZAC Day 1997. A key part of the pack is an “ABC” of key words designed to … Read more
Nico Maloberti and I were part of a small group of Fellows within Liberty Fund who understood and agreed with the original strategic vision of its Founder Pierre F. Goodrich (PFG), which was to promote the ideal of a fully free society which would be comprised of “free and responsible individuals” interacting with each other … Read more
This morning I received an email from “Cathy” who describes herself as a LinkedIn News Editor , asking for my response to a recent story published in the ABC news website on “International student arrivals to quarantine at Parafield Airport facility under new SA plan”. Why she asked me I do not know (perhaps because … Read more
During my first bladder operation I was struck by the conversations among the nursing staff and doctors in which my urine was judged according to the colour of wine. My twisted mind of course turned to Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22 and his account of the predicament of “The Soldier in White”. I thought my situation … Read more
After a long absence from Australia (20 years) it is interesting and instructive to be here on “Australia Day”. The day itself was hot and humid (37.5C) as was the perennial arguments about what “the 26th of January” is or should be all about, when “the 26th of January” should be held, or even whether … Read more
I was going through some old papers and came across the program and my lecture notes for the second ever Cato Summer Seminar in Political Economy which took place at Stanford University in 5-12 August 1978 (the first one took place a month earlier at Wake Forrest). Among the alumni are Ross Levatter, David Lips, … Read more
I am gradually transferring some files from my old blog to this new one. They are listed here (transferred in bold):
This blog contains the thoughts and musings of David Hart concerning the classical liberal tradition, war and the state, and film and art. His main website contains his research and a growing library of books in the classical liberal tradition. See the most recent additions. [David contemplating the move back to Sydney.] See the list … Read more