A Harmless Little Request Squelched
This is how the smallest public expression of political dissent is now treated in Russia. UPDATE: This was just a group of people who went to the police station on…
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Jailed in Iran
Haleh Esfandiari Haleh Esfandiari of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. has been imprisoned in Iran. A campaign is being organized to secure her freedom.
Great British Summer
If you’ve ever spent a summer in the United Kingdom, you’re likely to appreciate this.
Cool Map of Economic Freedom of the World
My colleagues Fadi and Ghaleb at Misbah al Hurriyya (the Lamp of Liberty) have produced a really cool new global map based on the Economic Freedom of the World Report,…
Are YOU a Terrorist?
Very disturbing… According to the state of Pennsylvania, it seems that a lot of people are…if they: *Oppose gun control; *Believe that juries have the power not to convict people…
The UN Commission on UN-Sustainable UN-Development
I’ll Develop You, Alright….Right in the Face! After destroying economic, social, and political life in Zimbabwe, the government of that ruined country has been chosen to chair the United Nations…
New Frontiers in Trademark Law
Footballers win sex toy damages….
Bryan Caplan on Democracy, Majorities, Minorities, and Stupid Policies
My economist friend Bryan Caplan has an interesting essay, “Special-Interest Secret,” in today’s Wall Street Journal. He faults majority ignorance at least as much as minority greed (and the difference…
My Cato VideoCast
From my summarization of my paper on “Open Societies, Global Markets, and the Bourgeois Virtues” at a recent Cato Institute conference on “What Should Be a Culture of Enterprise in…
A Better Declaration
Many friends of liberal toleration and the rule of law around the world look to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Liberties for inspiration, something that true liberals should…