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Who Knew? Hookah Bars Violate Anti-Smoking Bans

Are there people who go to hookah bars who are involuntarily subjected to smoke? I guess, just like people who go to rock concerts and are involuntarily subjected to rock…

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An Elegant New Case of Market Socialism

Tradable Jerk Rights.

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Good for a Chuckle

Matthew Polly on traveling in Thailand.

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Some Common Sense about the Iranian Taking of British Service Personnel

….from Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “How Blair Botched the Iran Hostage Crisis — Hint: Take a look at Iraq.”

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This and That

On Thursday I secured the rights to translate into Arabic the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics for Misbahalhurriyya.org (the Lamp of Liberty), a project that has great potential for the spread…

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Rabbit Breeder Hopping Mad

Those giant German rabbits that were sent to North Korea for a profoundly uneconomic breeding experiment may have been eaten by the Dear Leader at his Birthday Party.

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Kareem’s Case in Spanish, Russia’s Violent State in Russian

My essay on “Getting Kareem Freed” is now available in Spanish: “Liberando a Kareem.” My colleague Andrei Illarionov’s essay “Силовая моделÑ? госÑ?даÑ?сÑ?ва: пÑ?едваÑ?иÑ?елÑ?нÑ?е иÑ?оги” (“The New Model Russian State Is…

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Kareem’s Case in Spanish, Russia’s Violent State in Russian

My essay on “Getting Kareem Freed” is now available in Spanish: “Liberando a Kareem.” My colleague Andrei Illarionov’s essay “Силовая моделÑ? госÑ?даÑ?сÑ?ва: пÑ?едваÑ?иÑ?елÑ?нÑ?е иÑ?оги” (“The New Model Russian State Is…

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More Talking…

I had a great time here in Toronto, but it was up at 3:45 to catch my flight to D.C. Thank God for coffee-in-a-can, which I managed to buy at…

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Talk, Talk, Talk….

I’m flying up today to Toronto to give a talk on the benefits of freedom of trade (“globalization”), organized by Seyitbek Usmanov (a stalwart libertarian from Kyrgyzstan who interned at…

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