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Victor Niederhoffer's NYC Junto
The New York City Junto is a forum for individualists modeled after Benjamin Franklin’s famous discussion group. Victor Niederhoffer is founder and sponsor of the group. Meetings take place on the first Thursday evening of each month. Every meeting has a speaker, most of whom are leading individualist philosophers and economists. The idea is not to listen reverentially, but to arrive at a better mutual understanding of important issues. Lively debate is encouraged. |
Junto, a forum for individualists*,
invites you to hear Alan Charles Kors Chairman of FIRE, a nonprofit educational foundation devoted to free speech, individual liberty, religious freedom, the rights of conscience, legal equality, due process, and academic freedom on our nation's campuses. Why Universities Hate Liberty? Thursday, May 6 @ 7 pm We socialize from 7 pm. The meeting begins at about 7:30 with a discussion of current issues and events. The featured speaker is introduced at about 8. The meeting continues to about 10. Discussions are lively, but polite. Participation by attendees is highly encouraged. Grand Ballroom The Shelburne Hotel Manhattan Five blocks South of Grand Central Terminal Subway: 4,5,6,7 to 42nd St.-Grand Central, or B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 34th St.-Herald Square Admission Free NO RESERVATION NECESSARY
Alan Charles Kors
has been teaching European intellectual history since 1968 at the
University of Pennsylvania. He has published extensively on the
conceptual revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries, and is
editor-in-chief of the four-volume
Oxford
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (2002). Kors has long been involved
in the defense of academic freedom, and in 1993, he defended Penn student
Eden Jacobowitz in the infamous "water buffalo case." In 1998, he
coauthored, with Harvey Silverglate,
The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses.
* in·di·vid·u·al·ist n. One
who asserts individuality by independence of thought and action.
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