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The New York Times Intones
I Look Forward to a News Conference Announcing U.S. Disengagement A bit of hard-headed thinking seems to have reached the upper levels of the commentariat. Today’s New York Times has…
Nashism in Russia
Things are getting ever more worrisome in Russia, as this New York Times piece on Nashi notes: “Youth Groups Created by Kremlin Serve Putinâ??s Cause.” More and more people are…
Astonishing Anti-Semitism
There’s a truly strange and bizarre character running around the fringes of the extreme right, who writes under the name of “Taki.” He’s, shall we say, “old school” when it…
An interesting inteview
Hassan Butt on NPR about his turn from radical terrorism toward a modernized form of Islamic toleration.
Mises, Call Your Office!
The stories keep repeating themselves, so they should come as no surprise. The world, it seems, is still governed by “cause and effect.” These New York Times articles tell the…
False Confessions
I was just introduced to a new website, The Truth About False Confessions, that contains warnings about the powers of prosecutors. (Some years ago I read a book, on which…
Religious People Should Think About Testing Their Faith
I’m about done with Christopher Hitchens’ God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. It’s got some flaws (including a number of errors, none of which — so far, at…
The Bottom Billion
This review by Niall Ferguson (combined with my knowledge of other work by Collier that I’ve read) spurred me to order Paul Collier’s new book, The Bottom Billion: Why the…
Please Watch This Video
On the occasion of Abdelkareem’s 23rd birthday and 223rd day in prison.