Enforcing “Social Justice” and “Economic Justice”
The New York Governor’s Understanding of Justice I had a nice chat yesterday with an editorial writer for the New York Sun, with whom I discussed the decision by New…
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Debate on Foreign Policy at Federalist Society
But Where Are They Going? At the annual meeting of the Federalist Society last November I spoke/debated about the issue of “Limited Government and Spreading Democracy: Uneasy Cousins?” (See the…
An Open Letter to a Closed Mind
My friend Don Boudreaux has a fine open letter to Lou Dobbs in the Christian Science Monitor.
Al Jazeera (and the American Public) Parodied
This spoof is brilliant! Hat Tip: Andrew Sullivan
South Park Guys in Russian
I had the pleasure last year of taking part in the Reason in Amsterdam event where two very insightful and clever creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker of the television…
“No to 2007!”
Contributing to Global Warming? This is simply brilliant! In the most clever parody of 2006, Charming demonstrators in Nantes brought in the new year last night by demonstrating against it….
New Year’s Resolution
As 2007 is about to launch itself, I’ve made my first New Year’s Resolution. (Not the first of the year, but the first of my life; I’ve never done that…
The Shape of the New Russian Polity
In the Pilot’s Seat: Flying to Chechnya and Unchecked Power* Today’s New York Times has some insightful coverage of the shape of “politics” in Russia, “A New Parliament, but Still…
National Socialism Appraised Early On
David’s Medienkritik, which reports on media coverage in Germany, has done a signal service by making available an essay by S. Miles Bouton from The American Mercury, “Why Germany Endures…
Now Part of the Negative Side of the Execution
The execution of Saddam, which was, I think, a necessary step, has a very serious downside: it provides confirmation among the majority Sunni Arab population (and other Sunnis, as well)…