Useful Essay on the Struggle for Islam
Ibn Rushd (Averroes) Zaiuddin Sardar, who is the presenter for the BBC Two program on Islam mentioned below, had an interesting and helpful essay in the Toronto Star in July…
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You Can Learn Something New Every Day
First Page of “Original Rough Draught” of the Declaration of Independence One of the very sharp research interns (Jonathan Rick) at the Cato Institute (of course, they’re all very sharp,…
On the Road
I’ll be out of town for a few daysattending to family matters and unlikely to be able to post much, if anything.
Capitalism and Gay Life in China
An essay in today’s China Daily, “Gays live a difficult life under social bias,” tells how, although life for gay people in China is quite difficult, things are getting better….
The Curse of Oil
Shutting Off Liberty and the Rule of Law If you want to know why countries that are rich in resources are often poor in liberty, justice, the rule of law,…
The Failure of Limited Government or the Failure of Government?
All Wise, All Powerful: Government Can Do Anything! And Everything! Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, E. J. Dionne, and others are insisting that the disasters in New Orleans and the Gulf…
What Should the Prez Do?
I’m not sure I know the proper response to the New Orleans situation, but Andrew Sullivan is, as usual, quite direct: Fire Michael Brown.
Reclaiming an Islamic Heritage of Diversity and Toleration
Occasionally I wish that I were a television viewer so that I could see items like the BBC documentary on “Battle for Islam,” being presented today on BBC Two. (It…
Norse Poetry
I got a couple of emails about Egil’s poems, so I thought I’d share one from Njals’s Saga that I had printed in Icelandic and English and framed as a…