Pathetic Response from the Egyptian Embassy
In response to the Washington Post‘s editorial on “Blogger on Ice,” the press attache of the Egyptian Embassy, Karim Haggag, sent a letter (“Media Freedom in Egypt“). His letter and…
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Political Bankruptcy
I’ve had a short stay in the UK for meetings on my way back to D.C. from Nairobi. Despite being astonishingly expensive, the UK remains a lovely country, except for…
Website Problems
Sorry about the glitches in the website. MovableType is having difficulty producing proper paragraph breaks, spacing, and representation of non-Latin characters and letters. I’m looking into it. UPDATE: Fixed! Thank…
Some More African Pictures
I took these photos with Fred Young, a Cato Institute Board Member and all-round Friend o’ Freedom, after the end of the Mont Pelerin Society meeting in Nairobi The first…
Transfatty Freedom
“If trans fats are outlawed, only outlaws will have trans fats.” Jens F. Laurson (known for his stellar work on translating Olaf Gersemann’s adapted work Cowboy Capitalism into English) and…
Furðulegu!
Icelandic in one week! Yikes! Hat tip: Nathalie Vogel, who — sadly, poor thing — took more than one week to learn Icelandic.
Freedom and Enlightenment
C’est vrai! Consider this interesting story about a young person who left the closed life of an ultra-orthodox community for a secular life, “Young Jews walk out on religious life.”…
African Libertarianism
Amid all the awful things in the world that are cause for depression, one sometimes finds cause for hope. And the African classical liberals I met are high on the…
Kareem’s Case Covered in Le Monde
This case is not going to go away: “Délit de sale blog” (“Crime of a dirty blog”).