Month: May 2010


Mazar-e-Sharif and then the Road over the Hindu Kush to Kabul

You can click on the pictures for higher resolutions A trip to the Shrine of Hazrat Ali in Mazar-e-Sharif My body guards A truck lumbering up the passes of the…

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Mazar-e-Sharif

Some random pics….. Presenting a lecture with Prof Ramizpoor on property and the market economy at Balkh University, Mazar-e-Sharif Faculty members ar our lecture Some of the more than 350…

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Some Random Pics from Kabul

Ancient Wall of Kabul Kabul Street Scene (across the river) Kabul Street Scene Successful New Private University Meeting with university chancellor and historian One of my lectures on the law…

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Government and Facebook

A New York Times discussion, including Cato’s outstanding scholar Jim Harper: “Should Government Take On Facebook?” I am reminded of the posters I saw in Beijing last year (just up…

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Refugees from the State

I’m in Kabul and just saw that my review in Reason of The Art of Not Being Governed by James C. Scott is now online. It’s quite relevant to the…

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Traveling Meatless…

…is not easy! But it’s still right. I have had to wrestle a bit with the issue of cheese, which I really like and which I thought would be a…

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Adios!

Off to the Airport for Tajikistan and Afghanistan.

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Address to Former Cato Interns

Over 200 former Cato interns (I think the number was 220) converged on the Cato Institute’s headquarters from all over the country (and some from Latin America, Europe, and Asia)…

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Libertarianism, from A to Z

Jeffrey A. Miron presented his book Libertarianism, from A to Z at a forum at the Cato Institute, and I presented the comments, including a little history of the term…

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Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis

Johan Norberg on Book TV (from his Cato appearance) Johan Norberg at Cato (full video of forum)

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