FREEDOM
Its value, preconditions, and enemies “I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the times in which we live I…
Philip Vander Elst
Philip Vander Elst is a freelance writer, lecturer and C.S. Lewis scholar, and a former editor of <em>Freedom Today. </em> After graduating from Oxford in 1973, with a degree in politics and philosophy, he spent more than 30 years in politics and journalism, serving in free market think-tanks like the Centre for Policy Studies and the Institute of Economic Affairs, and writing for Conservative papers on both sides of the Atlantic, including the <em>Daily Telegraph, </em>the <em>Spectator, Human Events, </em>and the <em>American Spectator.</em> His many publications include: <em>Radical Toryism: the libertarian alternative, </em>(Political Quarterly, 1975), <em>Capitalist Technology for Soviet Survival, </em>(Institute of Economic Affairs, 1981), <em>Resisting Leviathan: the case against a European State, </em>(Claridge Press 1990), <em>C.S. Lewis: a short introduction </em>(Continuum, 2005), <em>Can we be free without God? </em>(<strong>bethinking.org</strong>, 2010), <em>The Principles of British Foreign Policy </em>(Bruges Group 2008), and <em>Power Against People: a Christian critique of the State, </em>(Institute of Economic Affairs web publication, 2008). Philip has completed nine lecture tours of the United States since 1975, speaking in many American universities and colleges, including Mary Baldwin, Washington and Lee, the University of Alabama, George Mason University, the University of Virginia, West Point, the U.S. Airforce Academy, and the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. He can be contacted at <a href="mailto:philipvanderelst@gmail.com">philipvanderelst@gmail.com</a>.
Christianity and freedom: a personal view
For decades, many observers of the contemporary cultural scene have been rightly concerned about the growing evidence that materially advanced Western societies are experiencing…
Power Against People: A Christian critique of the State
Introduction Ever since that period in European history known as the ‘18th century Enlightenment,’ the idea has firmly taken root in Western culture that…
Labour and the Gulag: the Labour Party’s record of support for totalitarian socialism
In 1910, Labour’s first leader, Keir Hardie, declared that “[Marx’s] memory is a consecrated treasure in the heart of millions of the…
Two prophetic 19th century anti-socialist satires
The Marxist Left in the Labour Party and elsewhere always embraces with naïve enthusiasm new revolutionary socialist regimes, most recently the one in Venezuela,…
Capitalist technology sustained the failed economic experiment of Soviet Communism
Despite the central role played by State controlled central banks and financial institutions in bringing about the conditions which led to the global credit…
The Communist Holocaust and its lessons for the 21st century
For at least half a century, nearly every secondary school pupil and university student in Britain has learnt about the evils of Nazism and…
‘Radical Toryism: the Libertarian Alternative’ (1975)
This paper of mine was first published 40 years ago when, as a young Oxford graduate, I was a founder member and editorial director…
Resisting Socialism in early 20th Century Britain
“The foundations of economic freedom are weakening around the world, according to the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom published by the Heritage Foundation and…
Vindicated by history: Statism’s 19th century critics
What is the single most important fact about the 20th century? The answer must surely be that it was the century which saw the…