Iraqi Trip
Freedom I’ve been enjoying the hospitality of my friends in Baghdad and just had two very useful meetings with some economists and with some of the people involved in the…
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A Narrow and Uncharitable View of the Pope’s Impact on the Communist World
John Paul II and Lech Walesa, January 15, 1981 Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher offers a corrective in Slate to some of the inflated claims of the role of Pope…
A Narrow and Uncharitable View of the Pope’s Impact on the Communist World
John Paul II and Lech Walesa, January 15, 1981 Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher offers a corrective in Slate to some of the inflated claims of the role of Pope…
A Narrow and Uncharitable View of the Pope’s Impact on the Communist World
John Paul II and Lech Walesa, January 15, 1981 Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher offers a corrective in Slate to some of the inflated claims of the role of Pope…
A Narrow and Uncharitable View of the Pope’s Impact on the Communist World
John Paul II and Lech Walesa, January 15, 1981 Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher offers a corrective in Slate to some of the inflated claims of the role of Pope…
New Source of Insight and Knowledge About Globalization
Free Trade from Pole to Pole (or even from Bulgarian to Bulgarian) My friend Alex Singleton has a new institute up and running in London: the Globalization Institute. It’s well…
Democracy and the New Iraq
I’ve been working on how to communicate the fundamental political ideals of classical liberalism and some of the practical challenges that people face in trying to attain free societies. I’ve…
Off to Promote Liberty (or At Least to Try!)
Iraqi Voters Well, I’m busily finishing up a slew of projects (writing letters, reviewing scholarship applications, etc., etc.) and packing up for my trip. I don’t know if I’ll be…
Austrian Politics Gets Interesting
According to reports in the Austrian press (Die Presse; Der Standard), the Freiheitliche Partei Ã?Â??’sterreichs (FPÃ?Â??’) has just split, with the loathesome JÃ?Â??Ã?Â?Ã?¶rg Haider, Governor of Carinthia, becoming leader of…
Apologetics for “Death of a State”
This Was No Cause for Rejoicing: It Matters Which State Replaces Which In comments and discussion on an earlier posting, a commenter posed a query about a low moment in…