Why We Are Not Living in Western Civilization
Steve Davies in a lecture at the Mercatus Center
History
A Delightful and Heart Warming Story….about Star Trek!
The ‘true story’ of how Dr. King kept Uhura on Star Trek (I added the exclamation point because I’m not a Trekkie, although I do remember watching the show when…
Falling Poverty
“Although world population has increased by about 80% over this time (World Bank 2009), the number of people below the $1 a day poverty line has shrunk by nearly 64%,…
The Centrality of Central Asia
The Wilson Quarterly has an excellent short article, “Rediscovering Central Asia,” by S. Frederick Starr, that offers an overview of contributions to human culture that emerged from Central Asia and…
Yegor Gaidar, R.I.P.
The Washington Post put it well: “Russia’s Yegor Gaidar championed freedom
A New Understanding of Economic Growth
I heard Deirdre McCloskey make this argument recently in Berlin, where I attended two conferences on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith’s The Theory…
A Voluntary Pledge of Allegiance
A surprisingly interesting critique of the “Pledge of Allegiance” (to a flag…ugh!) from Michael Lind: “The Pledge of Allegiance is un-American: Shouldn’t the government pledge allegiance to the people rather…
Poverty and Morality
I’m looking forward to the new Cambridge University Press book on Poverty and Morality (William A. Galston and Peter Hoffenberg eds., Cambridge University Press, 2010), in which I have a…
A Very Exciting New Book
I’ve been extremely busy lately (meaning work until 4 am frequently, plus travel) and have been behind on some writing projects, but I am really, really pleased that I brought…
Atlas’s Video on the Berlin Wall
Freedom Dinner 2009 – Video from Atlas Global Initiative on Vimeo. My colleague Austin Petersen (with some input from me) did a lot of work to produce this. (Note the…