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RNH Academic Director Hannes H. Gissurarson presented his new book, Twenty-Four Conservative-Liberal Thinkers, in two volumes, in Warsaw 2 November 2021, at a meeting sponsored jointly by the Civil Development Forum (FOR), the Warsaw Enterprise Institute and the Economic Freedom … Continue reading →

The venerable American institution Liberty Fund, based in Indianapolis, publishes books in the conservative-liberal tradition and holds colloquia on problems of freedom. One such colloquium was directed by RNH Academic Director Hannes H. Gissurarson in Paris, at the Hilton Opera, … Continue reading →

At a conference on policing and crime at Akureyri 6 October 2021, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, RNH Academic Director, argued that some vices should not be crimes. In his support he quoted St. Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologiae, I, ii, Question … Continue reading →

The Left has made significant gains in the West over the last few years, especially among young people, despite the total failure of the socialist programme, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson pointed out in a panel at a New Direction conference … Continue reading →

Modern conservatives and classical liberals, and most libertarians as well, are members of the same political tradition of the West, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson argued at the Summer University of New Direction and Fundación Civismo in El Escorial near Madrid … Continue reading →

On 7 April 2021, RNH Academic Director Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson was interviewed on television and radio on the occasion of his new book of 884 pages in two volumes, Twenty-Four Conservative-Liberal Thinkers, published in Brussels at the end of … Continue reading →