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Radicals For Stagnation! Stagnation Now!

France’s De-Oxygenated Future? The French riots occasioned by a minor liberalization of that country’s labor laws are not a good sign for la Grande Nation. The BBC offers an interesting…

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Who Knew that a University Would Do That Other Stuff, too?…

George Mason I was reading and writing in a wifi-equipped cafe nearby when people around me started whooping and hollering over what was being broadcast on the television. George Mason…

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Support Free Media and Free Speech in Iraqi Kurdistan

I received an email from a journalist I know in Iraqi Kurdistan asking for publicity for the cause of free speech and free media in his country. This essay from…

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Some More Pics from Armenia and Azerbaijan

Gyumri, Armenia: A Student Posing a Question following my Lecture at the University Yerevan, Armenia: Listening to a Translation of a Question from Armenian into German While Seated next to…

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Greek Libertarian Blog (in English, too!)

The [Old] School of Athens* My friend Sokratis Metaxas has just alerted me to a libertarian website and blog, in both Greek and English. Smart commentary by Sokratis, Takis Michas,…

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Last Word on Inequality

I’m about to pass out from jet lag,* but the response I wrote today to the Cato Unbound discussion of inequality is now up: “I’m Back! Response to Schmidtz, Singer,…

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Lecture Tour of Southern Caucasus Done (for Now)…

An Opportunity to Test Theories of Economic Growth: The Korean Peninsula at Night* I’ll post a few photos from my recent lecture trips, where I spoke before student audiences in…

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Gay Parade March in Moscow .. in English now

I just got back from a hellacious trip from Baku to Washington. But I was pleased to find that a slightly edited (i.e., shorter) version of my essay on the…

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My First Public Lecture in Tbilisi

Taking Questions With Powerpoint and Translator (a libertarian physicist) The question-and-answer session at Tbilisi State University was especially fun. (The event was organized by the leaders of the New Economics…

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Solidarity with Tyrants

Lukashenko and Milosevic: Two Villainous Enemies of Freedom, but Heroic Figures to Others Two disgusting blog entries on two disgusting tyrants: Mark Brady and Daniel McAdams. UPDATE: Make that four…

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