Over the past three years of its existence, Students for Liberty, UC Berkeley (CalSFL) has hosted 16 guest lectures delivered by prominent libertarians from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. And while the group hasn’t had the chance to record every one of these talks, we’ve managed to accumulate a respectable video collection. Highlights include a talk by Laissez Faire Books founder Sharon Presley on libertarian feminism—a much neglected topic in the movement—and Layola University Professor Walter Block’s thoughts on how markets can provide private police, military, and roads while protecting the environment. While each of the talks can be found in their entirety at CalSFL’s YouTube channel, I have posted the first video of each lecture’s series below for you viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

Anthony Gregory: “Civil Liberties Under Bush and Obama”
Anthony Gregory, research editor at The Independent Institute, delivers a humorous and educational lecture comparing the state of civil liberties under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

Sharon Presley: “Government is Women’s Enemy; Voluntary Association and Mutual Aid Are Women’s Friends”
Dr. Sharon Presley, former professor of sociology at California State University, East Bay and co-founder of Laissez Faire Books, explains the government’s harmful influence on the feminist movement.

Marty Nemko: “America’s Most Overrated Product: Higher Education”
Career coach and former radio host Dr. Marty Nemko discusses how higher education should be reinvented so it lives up to the deceptive promises in colleges’ promotional materials and the unquestioned cliché that American higher education is a national treasure.

David R. Henderson: “The Costs of War”
Dr. David R. Henderson, professor of economics at the Naval Postraduate School and research fellow at the Hoover Institution, lectures about the tremendous costs of America’s current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the standpoints of economics and public policy.

Walter Block: “Topics of Advanced Libertarianism: Roads, Immigration, Environment, Military”
Dr. Walter Block, Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair in Economics at Layola University, argues that anarcho-capitalism can provide for private roads, police, and military while allowing free immigration and protecting the environment.

Steven Greenhut: “Plunder!”
Steven Greenhut, director of the Pacific Research Institute’s Journalism Center and editor-in-chief of CalWatchdog, speaks about the disturbing growth of public employee unions as outlined in his new book, Plunder!: How Public Employee Unions are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives, and Bankrupting the Nation.

Troy Dayton: “The Entrepreneurship of Legal Marijuana”
Troy Dayton, CEO of the ArcView Group, gives a lively presentation to the club about the many fascinating business implications of the changing terrain of cannabis policy.