Gigi Foster on Reclaiming Power and Community
In this Academia Libera Mentis Salon talk, economist Gigi Foster explores how victimhood thinking erodes personal freedom and how agency, responsibility, and local community restore it. She revisits Covid-era conformity, explains why power ultimately comes from united people, contrasts rugged individualism with belonging, and shows how culture, family, and regional institutions make freedom practical.
From the “well regulated militia” to the Amish, Foster argues that love, purpose, and shared norms beat technocracy every time.
Recorded at Academia Libera Mentis, Salon on Sovereignty on 23 August 2025. Speaker: Gigi Foster, Professor of Economics (UNSW), co-author of The Great Covid Panic.
