Good news from Iraqi Kurdistan
Followup to an earlier posting on freedom of speech in Iraqi Kurdistan: One of the Iraqi Kurds who had been detained for speaking out in a way that the political…
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Maybe He’s Telling the Truth…. Maybe.
Gerhard SchrÃ?Â??Ã?Â?Ã?¶der became Vladimir Putin’s best buddy when he was in office and then Putin’s employee after the German voters fired him. Now we learn that his government offered financing…
Maybe He’s Telling the Truth…. Maybe.
Gerhard SchrÃ?Â??Ã?Â?Ã?¶der became Vladimir Putin’s best buddy when he was in office and then Putin’s employee after the German voters fired him. Now we learn that his government offered financing…
Madeline Cosman, R.I.P.
Fabulous Feasts I was saddened to learn that Dr. Madeline Cosman had died. She had attended several Cato University seminars and lectured at one. (She lectured on how the rule…
An Excellent Book!
I just finished Mancur Olson’s last book, Power and Prosperity and I’m pleased to report that it’s a real page-turner. I learned almost as much from it as I did…
That’s the Last Time I Refer to a Stupid Person as “Thick”….
According to Dr. Judith Rapoport, “IQ is related to the dynamics of cortex maturation.”
That’s the Last Time I Refer to a Stupid Person as “Thick”….
According to Dr. Judith Rapoport, “IQ is related to the dynamics of cortex maturation.”
A Little Demography
The BBC has run a few interesting pieces on demographics in Europe. One notes the rise of the “child free” lifestyle. The other looks at the rising birthrate in Russia,…
Another Capture by the Parasite Economy
My colleague David Boaz, now a columnist/blogger for The Guardian, tells why we should worry that Google has entered the lobbying process in Washington: “Google joins the lobbying world.”
Opinion Roundup on Iraq
Reason.com has a roundup of opinion on the Iraq war; I contributed one of the comments. (I have a rather longer piece on the topic coming out soon in Reason.)