Pure Thuggishness
What can one say? The word “authoritarian” is simply too weak to describe the thuggishness of this effort to intimidate a private citizen from expressing his views on public policy….
Month: May 2009
The Bastiat Prize
This is a great initiative.
Shocking Developments in Guatemala
“President, Murderer, or Both?,” by Constantino Diaz-Duran
Justice Abandoned
In a Washington Post article about a potential candidate for the Supreme Court (“Supreme Court Prospect Has Unlikely Ally:Friendship With Thomas May Complicate Chances for Left-Leaning Georgia Judge“; registration may…
Back to the Imperial City
Antigone “Tiggy” Palmer After some very, very long flights (Jakarta to Singapore, with a brief overnight stay and a quick trip into the city to walk around and get dinner;…
Free Trade Campaign in Indonesia
I gave a talk at a conference for journalists, business leaders, and government advisors in Jakarta. Here’s one of the resulting articles today from the front page of the leading…
Austrian Economics Jokes
From Marginal Revolution: How many Austrian economists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? All of them. First, Ludwig von Mises has to screw the bulb in personally. Then…
Great meetings!
I just had a really fruitful meeting in Kuala Lumpur at the offices of the Malaysia Think Tank, where good things are happening. I am holding in my hands a…
The Great Depression….Revisited
This article by Amity Shlaes from Forbes.com is definitely worth reading: “Fifteen Minutes Of Pain” I also highly recommend her book The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great…