A Look at the Oil for Palaces Program
Kofi Annan is finally looking into the way the U.N.’s policies funded the palaces, the torture chambers, and the secret police of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist regime in Iraq, at the…
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When Is a Vote to Raise Taxes a Vote to Raise Taxes?
Maybe when it’s a vote to make taxes higher than they would otherwise be. My colleague David Boaz brought to my attention this note about an article in the Washington…
Going to Jail for Performing a Sacrament?
The anti-marriage forces aren’t telling the truth when they insist that they aren’t “against” gay people and that they don’t want to trample on anyone’s rights. Two ministers have been…
Has Al Qaeda Won the Spanish Elections?
It certainly seems so. Spanish voters capitulated to terrorism. One could make a case that it was not in their interest to send peace-keeping troops after the Iraq war or…
Historical Background to the Gay Marriage Debate
Given the astonishing and sweeping historical claims made in the debate over gay marriage, it’s worth looking at what serious historical investigators have to say about homosexuality and romance. (Historical…
Sadness Over What Could Have Been
It is with great sadness that I announce the death of a colleague from the Cato Institute, our web master, Corinne Schillings, along with her fiancÃ?Â?Ã?©. They were on the…
Promoting Iraqi Libertarianism
Thanks to the generosity of a good friend, who pledged enough money to start up an independent think tank in Iraq and fund it for a year, my classical liberal/libertarian…
Violating Liberty by Raping the First Amendment
In a truly a truly outrageous decision, the California Supreme Court has ruled 6-1 that Catholic Charities must offer contraception to its employees. How utterly shameful: If you want contraception…
Globalization and Political Theory
I’ve had a few essays in the works for some time and two of them are now published and available. My monograph on Globalization and Culture: Homogeneity, Diversity, Identity, Liberty…
From Baghdad to San Diego
It’s a rather weird feeling to write this in a Starbucks in Del Mar, California, after Baghdad. I very much want to go back. I hardly know Baghdad and my…