Disgusting and Evil, but Protected by the First Amendment
They’re sickos. They’re morally depraved. But it’s not right to use force to forbid them from expressing their views, so long as they don’t invade the property of others to…
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Naked Absurdity
The Neighbors Good fences do make good neighbors, as the case of an English lady walking nude in her own backyard shows. Her neighbor, who was apparently “shaken” by the…
Cato@Liberty Blogging
I’ve been posting blog entries also at Cato@Liberty. Here’s the latest, on a ridiculous abuse of the legal process. I’ll keep on blogging here, as well, with some duplicates, but…
Libertarianism in Catalan!
My friend Andre from Portugal has alerted me to a new website on liberty in Catalan: www.hayekweb.com. (The site seems to be having problems at the moment, so I’ve linked…
News from Azerbaijan and Iran
My Azeri friends have brought to my attention two interesting news items from Azerbaijan and the large Azeri community in northern Iran. First is that the editor of a leading…
Bourgeois Virtues
Ok, It’s Not an Appropriate Illustration, but It’s Provocative Deirdre McCloskey has a new essay out on “Bourgeois Virtues” in the latest Cato Policy Report. It’s a short extract from…
Adam Smith in Arabic
Thanks to the hard work of my colleagues, the ideas of freedom are now appearing in Arabic newspapers, as well as on the Lamp of Liberty web site. Essays by…
“Internet Addiction”?
Behavior: It’s Addictive I’m tempted to write that I found this story about “Internet Addiction” after many hours of aimless surfing the net, but actually I just got back from…
“Internet Addiction”?
Behavior: It’s Addictive I’m tempted to write that I found this story about “Internet Addiction” after many hours of aimless surfing the net, but actually I just got back from…
The Strategy of Pure Destructionism
Part of a Terrorist Strategy The flight of the Iraqi middle classes (New York Times; requires simple registration), which means among other things people with education and a more worldly…