Month: April 2005


John Brown’s Bio

An interesting review in The New Yorker of a new biography of John Brown. I’m ordering the book on review, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the…

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John Brown’s Bio

An interesting review in The New Yorker of a new biography of John Brown. I’m ordering the book on review, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the…

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John Brown’s Bio

An interesting review in The New Yorker of a new biography of John Brown. I’m ordering the book on review, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the…

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John Brown’s Bio

An interesting review in The New Yorker of a new biography of John Brown. I’m ordering the book on review, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the…

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Virginia….a Nice Place, but….

My colleague David Boaz has a sharp piece on Reason.com on Virginia’s long history of incivility.

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Cato U Is On

I’ll be very (very) busy for the next two full days, as the Cato University 2005 Spring Seminar started this evening. I have responsibilities for the whole event, including giving…

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Are We to Be Ruled by Old Laws?

So It Was Writ I was horrified to learn that a federal judge has recently ruled that the powers of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to protect me from…

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Should Pharmacists Be Required to Fill Prescriptions?

Prescription for Conflict? My colleague David Boaz and Judy Waxman of the National Women’s Law Center face off in Legal Affairs on whether pharmacists should be forced to fulfill prescriptions….

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Back in D.C.

After a fairly unpleasant set of flights out of Baghdad to Amman to New York (12 hours of being tormented by a large number of unruly children does not contribute…

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Back in Amman

After an odd day, I’m in Amman, from which I’ll fly to the U.S. on Tuesday. My trip to the airport was rescheduled a few times (for understandable reasons), but,…

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