Mitchell’s Gilgamesh the Best Rendition
I’ve read and compared the new rendition of The Epic of Gilgamesh prepared by Stephen Mitchell with the others available in English and in my opinion it’s the best. It’s…
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What a Success Story
Nine years after the occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina by NATO troops, the movement toward authentic constitutional government has been…well, read for yourself. (It’s true that the war ended — nine years…
Time to Talk About Social Security
We have a chance to have an impact on the economy and political culture of the U.S. for the next hundred years, but only if people of understanding and good…
Tax Avoidance OverKill?
If the tax man is after you, you can just become the tax man’s absolute and unchallenged boss, with powers of life and death over him (and everyone else). I…
Students Interested in Liberty and Planning Careers Take Note
The Institute for Humane Studies has a great program of scholarships, grants, seminars, college guides, and much more to help students at both the undergraduate and graduate level. The deadline…
Libertarianism Marches On
My friend George Angelov of the Institute for Market Economics (website is in English and Bulgarian) in Sofia, Bulgaria has just sent me a nice note with a link to…
Cato Helps to Defeat Baseball Subsidies in D.C.
A Cato Institute study, “Caught Stealing: Debunking the Economic Case for D.C. Baseball,” got a lot of attention in the nation’s capital and seems to have sunk the hopes (of…
Fame…..Real Fame
I had a chat last night with Andrew Sullivan (we go to the same gym and bump into each other occasionally in the attached “Health Bar”) and he mentioned that…
Another Insightful Economics Site
When teaching about history or philosophy, I always stress the importance of studying economics if one wishes really to understand the serious problems. Economics isn’t by any means the only…