A Smear Job at the NYT
I’ve read Brian Doherty’s book Radicals for Capitalism cover-to-cover. I’ve blogged on it and taken part in an online debate occasioned by the book. (Note that the back-and-forth is in…
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Negative and Positive Liberty
A few minutes ago I sent off the last comment in the Cato Unbound discussion on Brian Doherty’s excellent book and his essay on “Libertarianism: Past and Prospects.” It’s been…
An Essay on Kareem
I have a piece today on National Review Online, “Getting Kareem Freed: A brave college student and a network of bloggers are stronger than many think.”
Paper on Globalization, Culture, and Enterprise
I’m presenting a paper on globalization, culture, and enterprise today at a conference on “What Should Be a Culture of Enterprise in an Age of Globalization?” that’s being held at…
Mudawwanat al Hurriyya — The Blog of Liberty
Blogging is growing in the Arab world. And now there’s the Blog of Liberty: Mudawwanat al Hurriyya, a project of the Lamp of Liberty, Misbah al Hurriyya.
Felines and Health Care
Wolly Telling Me She Loves Me and Doesn’t Want Me to Go to the Gym* I’m an extremely rich man. I’m so rich that I could pay to get better…
How States Get Started: Darfur
Just Like the Early States-Men “[T]here remains a relatively small number of farming villages such as Kuteri where people are struggling to maintain dignity under the yoke of the government-backed…
Washington Blade Coverage of Second Amendment Case
From today’s Washington Blade, “Gay scholar helps overturn D.C. gun law.” (The headline might suggest that I’m a scholar of gay subjects, which I’m not, but headlines have to be…
A Message to Condi Rice….
My friend Constantino Diaz-Duran has published a very fine piece in the New York Post today calling on Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice to raise the issue of pardoning Kareem…
Podcast on Kareem
NPR has a new podcast about the case of Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman and other bloggers in Egypt. More details here. (The podcast features a brief interview with my much-admired friend…