• Stock up on pro-freedom science fiction. Among this year’s finalists for the 2012 Prometheus Award for best libertarian science fiction: The Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge, The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman, In the Shadow of Ares by Thomas L. James and Carl C. Carlsson, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, The Restoration Game by Ken MacLeod, and Snuff by Terry Pratchett. The Libertarian Futurist Society will announce the winner of the Prometheus Award at the 70th World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago over Labor Day weekend.

• Learn more about Obamacare’s assault on religious liberty. On Tuesday, Paul Rahe will speak at Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center. The talk is officially part of its First Principles on First Fridays program, held this time on Tuesday because April’s First Friday is also Good Friday.

• Get on the Values Bus. Next week it’s in Ohio: Monday, Steubenville; Tuesday, Columbus; Wednesday, Cincinnati and Fairfield; Thursday, Warren and Butler Counties, and Dayton; Friday, Findlay; Saturday, Toledo; Sunday, Westlake and Cuyahoga Falls. More details at ValuesBus.com.

• Register for Resource Bank and the Atlas Experience (if you haven’t already). The tandem meetings will be held in Colorado Springs beginning April 24. Each will be a great opportunity to meet allies in the conservative/classical liberal movement.