Back from Brussels
I’ve had a series of useful meetings in Brussels with our European friends and partners. The Capitalist Ball (sponsored by the Centre for the New Europe) was fun and a…
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Free Kareem Rallies November 9 — Please Organize One In Your City
Contact the FreeKareem.org campaign for more details. Please join people around the globe for this brave young man’s life and freedom. Take a moment to imagine that you were in…
Cato on Campus
Thanks to the work of a talented team of young Catoites headed by Manager of Student Programs Joey Coon, the Cato on Campus site is now available. It’s intended to…
A Cool Breath of Reason
Bjorn Lomborg, author of Cool It: The Skeptical Enviromentalists’s Guide to Global Warming Bjorn Lomborg has a great essay in today’s Washington Post, “Chill out: Stop fighting over global warming…
Neatly Skewered
The soi disant deep thinker Naomi Klein has her deep thoughts brought up for a little sunlight by Tyler Cowen, “Shock Jock.” (I read her book No Logo years ago….
A Tale That Needs to be Told and Retold
Today’s New York Times tells the story of a French priest who is documenting the horrors of the extermination of Ukrainian Jews by the National Socialists: “A Priest Methodically Reveals…
A Positive Step in Turkey
Turkey could rethink insult law: Turkish President Abdullah Gul has called for changes to a law that has allowed writers to face trial for insulting Turkish identity. I know one…
Hillary, the Neocon?
My colleague Ed Crane published a piece in the Financial Times on Hillary Clinton’s neo-conservative statist tendencies, “Is Hillary Clinton a Neocon?” Thanks to the work of my colleagues at…
Dongmei Li of Queens, New York…..Get a Life!
SAN JOSE, California (AP) — A New York woman is so angry at Apple Inc. for lopping $200 off the price of the iPhone that she’s filed a lawsuit seeking…
An Elegant Treatment of Twentieth Century Collectivism
David Boaz judiciously reviews Wolfgang Schivelbusch’s excellent bookThree New Deals: Reflections on Rooseveltâ??s America, Mussoliniâ??s Italy, and Hitlerâ??s Germany, 1933â??1939 in Reason: “Hitler, Mussolini, Roosevelt — What FDR had in…