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Montreal, Here I Come
I’ll be in Montreal, PQ this weekend to speak at a seminar on Politics & Society at McGill University. It’s being organized by the Institute for Liberal Studies, which is…
The SWAT Valley…but it’s not in Pakistan
Yesterday on the radio I heard an interview with Cheye Calvo, mayor of Berwyn Heights, Maryland, who recounted his family’s nightmare as they were attacked by a SWAT (Special Weapons…
Women’s History Month and Three Remarkable Women
Three Women Who Launched a Movement
Free Nick Hogan
I don’t smoke. I don’t like smoking. I hate the smell it leaves on your clothes when others smoke around you. But that doesn’t change my views about this injustice:…
Common Sense Economics in Dari
The Afghanistan Economic and Legal Studies Organization with which I work has just published their first book, a Dari edition of Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth…
Delightful Books I’ve Read Recently
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb I found Fooled by Randomness interesting and provocative (even when scoring points…
The Nut Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree
traMarcus Epstein & The Racism of Sam Francis Make up your own mind about this young man, Marcus Epstein, and his revealed preferences. (You can search for his name on…
Just How Many Swiss Ships Are There?
Some, it seems!
Outcry Against the Danish Paper Politiken Caving in to Threats
From the International Free Press Society: These idiots should have their paper boycotted until they rescind their apology. The editor of Jyllands-Posten, which originally printed the cartoons in 2005 and…