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Europe, Iceland and the Future of Capitalism

Jointly, RNH and AECR, the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists, organise a series of lectures at the University of Iceland and elsewhere, some of which will eventually be published. Icelandic and foreign scholars and writers discuss Iceland’s place in Europe … Continue reading

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The Ayn Rand Project

RNH is supporting the Icelandic Ayn Rand Project of the publishing house Almenna bokafelagid, AB. In November 2011, Rand’s Fountainhead (1943) was published in Icelandic in philosopher Thorsteinn Siglaugsson’s revised translation: It had originally appeared in Icelandic in 1990, but … Continue reading

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Europe of the Victims

An important RNH project is ‘Europe of the Victims: Remembering Communism’, organised jointly with ECR, European Conservatives and Reformists (formerly ACRE and AECR). The first event in this project was a lecture at the University of Iceland by Danish Professor … Continue reading

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Green Capitalism

An important part of the project jointly organised by RNH and ACRE, the Alliance of  Conservatives and Reformists in Europe, on “Europe, Iceland and the Future of Capitalism” is the exploration of reforms of institutions governing the utilisation of natural … Continue reading

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Professor Bent Jensen: They Served Moscow

Professor Bent Jensen, a distinguished Nordic expert on communism and author of many best-selling books in Danish, gave a lecture on Nordic Communism at a joint meeting of the University of Iceland Institute of International Affairs and Almenna bokafelagid 27 … Continue reading

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Dr. Tom Palmer

Upon the publication of Ayn Rand’s Fountainhead, 28 November 2011, Dr. Tom Palmer of Cato Institute in Washington DC, gave a talk in the Icelandic House of National Culture on “21st Century Individualism”, followed by a reception hosted by Almenna bokafelagid. Palmer discussed … Continue reading

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