Conference Center Modeling
My friends from Baku have sent me a copy of the new brochure for the Novkhani Aqua Park conference center; it seems that my conferences there earlier this year with…
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Petition Against a Stoning
I was just forwarded an online petition by a friend from Iraqi Kurdistan. It’s a petition against death by stoning for an Iranian woman who has been accused of adultery….
Celebrate the Principles of American Independence
Every year on July 4 I read through the text of the American Declaration of Independence. I usually manage to find something I hadn’t thought about before. It’s available in…
VOIP Over the Atlantic
I just made my first Voice Over Internet Protocol phone call over the Lufthansa WiFi system while flying over the Atlantic (the map shows us just south of the tip…
Crisis, Government, and History
I finally managed to upload a PDF version of the Powerpoint presentation I made at the Freedom School before departing for Vienna. Naturally, it’s just the broad outline of my…
Economic Freedom and Cooperation in Arabic
Pencils in One Stage of a Complex Production Process My colleagues continue to work miracles in promoting freedom and rationality in the Arab world. Leonard Read’s excellent essay “I, Pencil”…
A Sad Story,… One of Many
Yoshiteru Nakagawa is one of the last victims of the Soviet tyranny to come to light. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union fed military prisoners of…
Hong Kong Hike for Democracy
The long-term survival of liberty and prosperity in Hong Kong depends on the rule of law. The proxy for that is the movement for democracy, which is still alive and…
Business Seeks Gay Employees and Customers, While Governments Tend to Promote Hatred and Oppression
The Dollar Packs a Lot of Weight It can be really interesting to observe how people react when they reap the benefits and bear the costs of their own actions,…
A Special Kind of Shallowness…Mixed with Childishness
I just got an email informing me that one particularly thick person has commented on my disparaging comments on the Bush Administration’s issuance of a meaningless non-order non-protecting property rights…