A Tiny Piece of Good News…
Images from the Book of Kells A medieval Irish manuscript has been discovered. Experts have dated the book as from 800-1000 of the Common Era. To learn why that’s such…
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A Fine Man Is Gone
In the course of running seminars and giving talks on freedom, I have met many admirable people. One of the most memorable recently died. Pedro A. Diaz died at the…
Mideast Youth Blog
I was contacted by a student from the Middle East to alert me to a new blog from a moderate pro-civil society perspective: Mideastyouth.com. The latest blog entry is a…
Reimburse U.S. Taxpayers
I was watching CNN and was really sickened by the whining of the journalists, who were shocked that U.S. law required that people who were evacuated at taxpayer expense were…
Enough….More than Enough
With the rest of the world I have watched in horror at what is happening in Lebanon. Hezbollah, supported by the extremists in Tehran, has goaded Israel into striking, not…
At Least We Don’t Have to Handle Scorpions
While helping young libertarians gathered together at Cambridge University to appreciate the tradition of liberty and to engage cognitive tools to understand and improve the world, I learned that Cambridge…
Thank God for Governmental Safety Regulations!
Toyota: Less Safe, Thanks to Uncle Sam My old friend Dan Garrett just sent me a great link to an article on CNN, “Toyota’s totally bizarre recall: Why would Toyota…
Brilliant German Videos
My friend Alan Zuschlag, who shares my interest in offbeat German humor, has shared with me a rather good bit of internet video (with great English subtitles) on the “Bush…
Cambridge to Virginia
I’m about done with my talks on political economy, history, and the philosophy of rights at the Freedom Week seminar organized by my long-time friend Jean-Paul Floru. Then it’s straight…
On-Line Petition for Free Speech in Russia
During the recent meeting of the European Resource Bank in Vienna, I was involved in drafting a Statement of Concern for Freedom in Russia. It’s now online and people can…