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Philip Vander Elst is a freelance author, journalist lecturer, and formerly General Director of the Free Association and Editor of Freedom Today. He was a founder member of the Selsdon Group and has worked on the staff of the Centre for Policy Studies and the Institute of Economic Affairs. Over the last 30 years he has written widely on political, economic and philosophical subjects for papers in Britain and the United States, including the Dail Telegraph, the Spectator, the Sunday Times, the Political Quarterly, Human Events, and the American Spectator. He is also a former officer of the Oxford Union Debating Society and has been a visiting lecturer at many American Universities and colleges.

He has been a writer and broadcaster on radio and television on both sides of the Atlantic, His many publications include Resisting Leviathan: the Case Against A European State (Claridge Press iggi); Idealism Without Illusions: a Foreign Policy for Freedom (Freedom Association 1989), Libertarism: a Christian Critique (Christian Institute