Baghdad Lectures and Seminars
Baghdad’s Babylon Hotel I had two very different presentations today. The first was a lecture and Powerpoint presentation on the process of writing an Iraqi constitution to a private organization…
Month: April 2005
The Constitution in Exile
I’ve just quickly read the New York Times Magazine piece by Jeffrey Rosen on “The Constitution in Exile.” (I have to finish some work before giving some lectures for univesity…
Common Sense Economics
As I’ve been trying to help Iraqis to explain economics to their compatriots, I’ve had the pleasure of reading through an excellent little work, Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should…
Mass Graves and Courage
A new set of mass graves has been found in Iraq, according to a report in the New York Times (requires simple registration). Many of the terrorists who are attacking…
Iraqi Trip
Freedom I’ve been enjoying the hospitality of my friends in Baghdad and just had two very useful meetings with some economists and with some of the people involved in the…
A Narrow and Uncharitable View of the Pope’s Impact on the Communist World
John Paul II and Lech Walesa, January 15, 1981 Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher offers a corrective in Slate to some of the inflated claims of the role of Pope…
A Narrow and Uncharitable View of the Pope’s Impact on the Communist World
John Paul II and Lech Walesa, January 15, 1981 Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher offers a corrective in Slate to some of the inflated claims of the role of Pope…
A Narrow and Uncharitable View of the Pope’s Impact on the Communist World
John Paul II and Lech Walesa, January 15, 1981 Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher offers a corrective in Slate to some of the inflated claims of the role of Pope…
A Narrow and Uncharitable View of the Pope’s Impact on the Communist World
John Paul II and Lech Walesa, January 15, 1981 Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher offers a corrective in Slate to some of the inflated claims of the role of Pope…
New Source of Insight and Knowledge About Globalization
Free Trade from Pole to Pole (or even from Bulgarian to Bulgarian) My friend Alex Singleton has a new institute up and running in London: the Globalization Institute. It’s well…