Month: January 2005


Austrian Ghosts

This is a strangely haunting story. (But after reading the article, I have no idea why the photo the BBC used was appropriate for the story.)

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Bad Education

I just saw the new film “Bad Education” from Pedro AlmodÃ?Â??Ã?Â?Ã?³var. It’s a delightfully AlmodÃ?Â??Ã?Â?Ã?³varish version of film noir. It features plenty to shock some people, which AlmodÃ?Â??Ã?Â?Ã?³var evidently enjoys…

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Social Security and Morality

Jonathan Rauch, one of America’s finest substantive reporters, has a very interesting column in the January 14 issue of the National Journal: “The No. 1 Moral Issue Is…Abortion? No, Social…

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Amazon.com’s New Delivery Option?

Entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, has launched Blue Origin, which is “developing vehicles and technologies that, over time, will help enable an enduring human presence in space.”…

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Amazon.com’s New Delivery Option?

Entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, has launched Blue Origin, which is “developing vehicles and technologies that, over time, will help enable an enduring human presence in space.”…

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Amazon.com’s New Delivery Option?

Entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, has launched Blue Origin, which is “developing vehicles and technologies that, over time, will help enable an enduring human presence in space.”…

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Amazon.com’s New Delivery Option?

Entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, has launched Blue Origin, which is “developing vehicles and technologies that, over time, will help enable an enduring human presence in space.”…

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Islam and Freedom (and Discounted Books)

I’m looking forward to Timur Kuran’s presentation at a Cato Institute conference next month of the results of his years of research and thinking about the prospects for liberty in…

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Help to Young Authors

I just rediscovered a very amusing essay that had been shown to me at Oxford by my friend Guy Calvert (D.Phil. in high falutin’ mathematical physics, poker champion, and gambling…

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Another Valuable Charity

My friend Gabi Huiber (an economist I met in Oxford years ago when, as an eager undergraduate, he hitchhiked from Transylvania to take part in a conference I organized with…

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