{"id":581,"date":"2008-11-14T21:51:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T02:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=581"},"modified":"2008-11-15T08:59:07","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T13:59:07","slug":"photos-from-the-george-mason-spiel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/14\/photos-from-the-george-mason-spiel\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos from the George Mason Spiel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to thank the George Mason University Economics Society and the Future of Freedom Foundation for inviting me to speak yesterday at GMU. The pizza was a hit and there was a lively back-and-forth with the audience on lots of subjects.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to thank Professor <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mason.gmu.edu\/~trustici\/\">Thomas Rustici<\/a><\/strong>. He has assigned <strong>Lost Rights<\/strong> as a textbook for quite a few years and it was a real treat for me to meet\u00a0so many students who had read that book, including several who swore they enjoyed it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morgan Ashcom<\/strong>, a great young professional photographer (who is also a libertarian), took a series of photos at the event. I am reposting here with his permission. Check out his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morganashcom.com\"><strong>website <\/strong>&#8211;<\/a> he is based in the DC area and is building up a very strong porfolio.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47043.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-600\" title=\"_mg_47043\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47043-400x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47043-400x500.jpg 400w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47043.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_46922.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-598\" title=\"_mg_46922\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_46922-400x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_46922-400x500.jpg 400w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_46922.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47251.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-597\" title=\"_mg_47251\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47251-500x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47251-500x400.jpg 500w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47251.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47071.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-596\" title=\"_mg_47071\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47071-500x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47071-500x400.jpg 500w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47071.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47151.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-595\" title=\"_mg_47151\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47151-500x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47151-500x400.jpg 500w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47151.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47221.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-594\" title=\"_mg_47221\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47221-500x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47221-500x400.jpg 500w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47221.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47042.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_47041.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_46921.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/_mg_4725.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to thank the George Mason University Economics Society and the Future of Freedom Foundation for inviting me to speak yesterday at GMU. The pizza was a hit and there was a lively back-and-forth with the audience on lots of subjects. I also want to thank Professor Thomas Rustici. He has assigned Lost Rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Photos from the George Mason Spiel - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/14\/photos-from-the-george-mason-spiel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Photos from the George Mason Spiel - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I want to thank the George Mason University Economics Society and the Future of Freedom Foundation for inviting me to speak yesterday at GMU. 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