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The Brussels think tank New Direction each year helps organise a Think Tank Central where representatives of various think tanks in Europe, North America and elsewhere get together and share ideas, arguments and evidence. The 2023 Think Tank Central was … Continue reading →

On the occasion of the retirement in early 2023 of Hannes H. Gissurarson as Professor at the University of Iceland, the Public Book Club, Almenna bokafelagid, published in one boxed set the four condensations he has made in English of … Continue reading →

Adam Smith, the father of economics and also one of the most respected philosophers of all times as well, had his 300th birthday in June 2023. It is unclear when he was born, but he was christened on 16 June … Continue reading →

In a panel on Nordic conservatism at the Young Leaders Academy, held in Sundbyholm Palace near Eskilstuna 16–18 June by the Brussels think tank New Direction, the Swedish think tank Oikos, and the Swedish Conservative Student Association, Professor Hannes H. … Continue reading →

On 1–4 June 2023, RNH Academic Director Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Iceland, attended a Liberty Fund Colloquium at Middlethorpe Hall in York, England, about commercial society in the works of four Enlightenment thinkers, Montesquieu, David … Continue reading →

The Public Book Club, Almenna bokafelagid, AB, held its annual general meeting on 26 May 2023. AB was founded on 17 June 1955 in order to counter the disproportionate influence of the communist-dominated book club Language and Culture, Mal og … Continue reading →