I enjoyed being a guest on “America’s Roundtable,” a radio program hosted by the gracious Joel Anand Samy and Natasha Srdoč. The segment was broadcast the weekend of February 8th, and is now a video on YouTube.
Mr. Samy and Ms. Srdoč lead the Adriatic Institute. The institute is a free-market think tank “dedicated to strengthening the rule of law and advancing economic freedom through advocating market reforms in Croatia and southeast Europe.” See its website, Facebook page, and blog site, and its Adriatic Libertas Students Facebook page.
We had a good discussion of state, national, and international concerns, covering topics including:
- Tunisia, including think tank Institut Kheireddine
- Egypt
- Economic freedom
- Foreign aid
- Limits of democracy
- Importance of free-market think tanks
- Privatization of services
- Importance of civil society
- Power of ideas
- Sweden
- Challenge of turning around the U.S.
- State powers
- How states can become freer
- Public choice economics
- Danger of central government
- Cronyism
- Campaign finance, lobbying, and term limits
- Culture of Congress
- Nature of politicians and government
- Limits of constitutions in restraining government
The photos in the video presentation, besides those of Mr. Samy and Ms. Srdoč, include one of me with Franklin Cudjoe, Founding Director and President of IMANI Center for Policy and Education in Ghana, and Managing Editor of AfricanLiberty.org, based in Nigeria. I saw Mr. Cudjoe, whom I know through Atlas Economic Research Foundation events, when he attended a program at Harvard University in March 2011.
In another photo, I appear with Gisèle Dutheuil, founding member and director of Audace Institut Afrique in Ivory Coast. I also know Ms. Dutheuil through Atlas events, and this photo was taken at the Atlas Liberty Forum and Freedom Dinner in New York City in October 2012.
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I appreciated the opportunity to exchange ideas on making a freer world.
