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A Visit to Malaysia

Bryan Caplan has an interesting take here. (Libertarian commentary from Malaysia, in English and Bahasa Melayu, can be found here.)

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Burying the Records of the Past with the Victims

“Kremlin Rules: Nationalism of Putin’s Era Veils Sins of Stalin’s,” by Clifford Levy, New York Times (26.November.2008) Mr. Trenin said he believed he had enough information to make the case…

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Financial Crisis Video in Kurdish and Azerbaijani

Kurdish Azerbaijani (embedded here) Here it is (a very similar version, at least) in English.

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Off to the UK

I’m off on Sunday to the United Kingdom. I’ll be at the IHS/Freedom Week Reunion on December 1, go up to Oxford December 2 to speak to the Oxford Libertarian…

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Doesn’t the 8th Amendment to the US Constitution Strictly Prohibit This?

CNN: “A judge sentences some teen noise offenders to listen to Barry Manilow. KUSA’s Chris Vanderveen reports“

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I’ll be speaking at the…

Second Annual International Students For Liberty Conference, February 20-22, 2009, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

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An Intimate Assault on Freedom of Association

Jacob Sullum on “eHarmony Forced to Create a Dating Service for Gay Singles” From the article in the Boston Herald: “Until (Wednesday’s) settlement, eHarmony was more like eNeanderthal for its…

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Back to the Sink Hole of DC

After a looonnngg travel day, from Nanjing to Beijing and then Beijing to DC, I’m about to hit the gym. I managed to do some business planning and finish up…

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Nanjing

I’m in Nanjing, where I had meetings and gave a lecture on international trade and peace at the Nanjing University of Finance and Economics last night. (I just completed an…

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