Home and Away
I’m at home long enough to get reacquainted with my girls (felines, both), do laundry, take care of lots of business, and then hit the road for Denver and then…
Cool News
The Lamp of Liberty Re-Lit!
Thanks to the hard work, dedication, and intelligence of my colleagues Fadi Haddadin and Ghaleb Hijazi, and our Jordanian internet magicians, the Lamp of Liberty (MisbahalHurriyya.org) has a completely new…
Google Books Rocks!
I’m working on a lecture to deliver in Hamburg on “Freedom Properly Understood,” so I’ve been reading up on various theories of “positive freedom,” including Amartya Sen’s Development as Freedom…
Cato University Home Study Course Now Available
* All 12 modules of the Cato University Home Study Course are now available in mp3 format. They can be purchased on CDs at the moment (and either played from…
Hayek Now in Print in Arabic
F. A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom (the condensed edition) is now in print in Arabic. Thanks to the whole Misbah al Hurriyya team!
Russian-Language Essay Contest
Cato.ru is now sponsoring an essay contest (all entries in the Russian language only) on themes raised in Johan Norberg’s excellent book, In Defense of Global Capitalism, which will be…
My New Colleague
It’s nice finally to be able to announce publicly that Andrei Illarionov, one of Russia’s most outspoken friends of liberty, has joined the Cato Institute as a senior fellow. The…
Middle Eastern Comic Book Art
Comics Are as Popular in the Arab World as Elsewhere As a part of my research on new ways to convey ideas, I’ve been looking into the medium of the…
A Tiny Piece of Good News…
Images from the Book of Kells A medieval Irish manuscript has been discovered. Experts have dated the book as from 800-1000 of the Common Era. To learn why that’s such…