The Future of Freedom Conference candidate. The California Libertarian Alliance sponsored 1977's Future of Freedom Conference. The Future of Freedom II: The 1980s: Freedom or Slavery was held at Cypress College April 19–20, 1980, with a banquet at the Buena Park Holiday Inn. Main speakers included the following: Karl Hess, speechwriter for Senator Barry Goldwater, market anarchist, and author of "Dear America"; Robert Anton Wilson, author of the "Illuminatus! trilogy"; John Hospers, USC philosophy professor; Prof. Arthur B. Laffer, economist and originator of the "Laffer Curve"; John Matonis, tax-resistance attorney; J. Neil Schulman, science fiction writer of "Alongside Night"; David Bergland, attorney and Vice Presidential
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