A Disturbing Picture of What’s to Come?
What Does This Suggest?: “[Stalin] is considered one of the most successful leaders of the U.S.S.R. During his leadership the territory of the country was expanded and reached the boundaries…
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Albania’s Unusual (and Dying) Tradition
I remember reading about Albania’s rural tradition of women who are accepted socially as men years ago. Women — often in families lacking a patriarch — would take the status…
Albania’s Unusual (and Dying) Tradition
I remember reading about Albania’s rural tradition of women who are accepted socially as men years ago. Women — often in families lacking a patriarch — would take the status…
Back to DC
The Atlas Experience, put on by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, was a delight and an opportunity to meet up with friends from Italy, Kenya, Azerbaijan, Canada,…
Chinese Summer School
Cato’s Chinese partner, the Cathay Institute for Public Affairs, will be holding a summer school on liberal ideas this month: the Lao Tse and Adam Smith Academy.
Canadian Mobile Blogging
I’m in the (much delayed) van from Buffalo Airport to Niagara-on-the-Lake in Canada for the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. The Verizon mobile broadband works just fine! (An odd coincidence; while…
A Presumption in Favor of Prudence?
Stephen Bainbridge has an interesting essay up about foreign policy over at Andrewsullivan.com, “On Non-Interventionism.” It´s a helpful dose of wisdom, but…. a presumption in favor of prudence suggests that…
Herbert Spencer in Arabic
Thanks to the hard work of my colleagues, Herbert Spencer’s briliantly radical essay “The Right to Ignore the State” from his book Social Statics has just appeared on Misbah al…
A Great Approach to History
My friend Steve Davies, a truly wonderful lecturer on history, gave a great talk yesterday on the nature of history at this IES Europe seminar. A precis of it can…