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Philip Vander Elst

Philip Vander Elst is a freelance writer, lecturer and C.S. Lewis scholar, and a former editor of Freedom Today. 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 Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, Human Events, and the American Spectator. His many publications include: Radical Toryism: the libertarian alternative, (Political Quarterly, 1975), Capitalist Technology for Soviet Survival, (Institute of Economic Affairs, 1981), Resisting Leviathan: the case against a European State, (Claridge Press 1990), C.S. Lewis: a short introduction (Continuum, 2005), Can we be free without God? (bethinking.org, 2010), The Principles of British Foreign Policy (Bruges Group 2008), and Power Against People: a Christian critique of the State, (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 philipvanderelst@aol.co.uk.

Economics20 March 18

Capitalist technology sustained the failed economic experiment of Soviet Communism

By Philip Vander Elst

Despite the central role played by State controlled central banks and financial institutions in bringing about the conditions which led to the global credit…

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Politics22 November 17

The Communist Holocaust and its lessons for the 21st century

By Philip Vander Elst

For at least half a century, nearly every secondary school pupil and university student in Britain has learnt about the evils of Nazism and…

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Politics27 October 15

‘Radical Toryism: the Libertarian Alternative’ (1975)

By Philip Vander Elst

This paper of mine was first published 40 years ago when, as a young Oxford graduate, I was a founder member and editorial director…

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Peace13 October 15

Resisting Socialism in early 20th Century Britain

By Philip Vander Elst

“The foundations of economic freedom are weakening around the world, according to the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom published by the Heritage Foundation and…

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Economics9 December 12

Vindicated by history: Statism’s 19th century critics

By Philip Vander Elst

What is the single most important fact about the 20th century? The answer must surely be that it was the century which saw the…

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