A Little Good News
“Economics in many lessons: A better brew for Rwanda,” by Karol and Don Boudreaux Zimbabwe notoriously excepted, the trend in much of Africa is positive. They’ve tried virtually everything else…..it’s…
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Interest Kindled
Ok, I’m a bit of a gadget nut. But I also carry a lot of books when I’m on the go. Amazon.com’s new Kindle seems perfect. I saw the middling…
A Few African Photos
The Cato Team Before the African Resource Bank Meeting in Tanzania Franklin Cudjoe, Editor of the forthcoming AfricanLiberty.org, addressing the African Resource Bank meeting My Presentation at the African Resource…
It Would Be Sad, Were It Not So Amusing
Someone I used to know, Thomas DiLorenzo, who has in the meantime taken to writing error-filled books (“a travesty of historical method and documentation“) on statist American presidents, has given…
Shouldn’t They Have Held This in Flushing, New York?
Odd, but possibly life saving: “Toilet conference eyes revolution.” We take the work of John Harington and Thomas Crapper so much for granted. But their efforts have saved millions of…
On the Road Again
Milwaukee, Moscow, Milan, London. I’ll be on the road a bit for a variety of presentations, lectures, conferences, and meetings. (I’ll spend much of December in China.)
Supremes Agree to Review Second Amendment Case
Our case is on the way to the Supreme Court. That includes a petition to reinstate standing for myself and the four others who were original plaintiffs. The heroic Bob…
The Old Poland and the New
This corresponds to my own memories of visiting Communist Poland: I remember a bleak time in Poland when the economy was so maddeningly out of touch with the needs of…
Liberalism.ro
There’s a useful classical liberal website in Romanian: www.Liberalism.ro. (My little essay on globalization is included: “Globalizarea este minunatÄ?!.”)
Another Way of Accounting for the Iraq War
Tyler Cowen in the Washington Post on “What Does Iraq Cost? Even More Than You Think.”