Economic Freedom of the World Study Released
The Economic Freedom of the World: 2006 Annual Report was released today (well, it’s 12:20 am, so technically yesterday). It’s well worth a careful read. The charts relating economic freedom…
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Some Common (Moral) Sense about Torture
Andrew Sullivan subjects president Bush’s speech, in which he admitted to secret CIA prisons but denied authorizing torture, to a critical look: 1, 2.
Cowboy Capitalism in Russian
Thanks to the good offices of the IRISEN project in Russia (on whose editorial board I serve), Olaf Gersemann’s outstanding book Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Reality has appeared in…
An Especially Ominous Sign for Iraq
The Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has used his powerful voice to plead for restraint in Iraq. He has called for respect for Christians and condemned the attacks on churches organized by…
A Little Reading
I took some time off to run some errands today and to do some reading. I finished Naguib Mahfouz’s story The Day the Leader Was Killed, which I found both…
The Art of Comics
I’m commissioning some illustrated novels (comic books) about liberty in the Arabic language with some talented and experienced creators of comic books in the Middle East. In order to understand…
CanadaCalm
The Magnetism of Canada According to the BBC, Passengers on a Canadian plane had an unsettling in-flight experience after the pilot found himself locked out of the cockpit after a…
Challenges of Democratization
My friends in the courageous Free Minds Association of Azerbaijan, who are busy translating and publishing important works, such as Frederic Bastiat’s essays, found time to translate and publish this…
A Great Artist and an Insightful Thinker
Naguib Mahfouz I’m not as literary a person as I ought to be, but even I know the work of Naguib Mahfouz, who just died. His name came up a…
At Last: “Freedom and Jihad: The Middle East and Europe”
Through the good offices of my friend P.J. Doland, I have finally gotten the PDF of my Poweroint presentation at the Reason conference in Amsterdam uploaded: “Freedom and Jihad: The…