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…
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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…
Freedom Academy Winding Up
I just gave my last talk on “Globalization and Identity” at the Freedom Academy and Doug Den Uyl is speaking on moral and political aspects of entrepreneurship. I’ll attend a…
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
I’m in Penang, Malaysia just starting the Freedom Academy, and listening to Dr. Doug Den Uyl start his lecture on Ayn Rand’s thought: “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.”
Some Common Sense on Drug Policy….
….from the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy Read their final report: “Drugs and Democracy: Toward a Paradigm Shift” It is long past time to end the destructive, wasteful,…