All of “Free to Choose” Online for Video Streaming….in English!
The late Milton Friedman, one of the great minds and great friends of freedom of our time, was a great teacher, as well. His “Free to Choose” video series and…
Economic Insights
The New Russia and a New Eurasia
For anyone interested in what’s going on in Eurasia, with a focus on Russia and its relations with all of the other nations of the continent, I highly recommend watching…
A Bit of Media Play
The New York Times ran a cover story yesterday that includes discussion of some people I greatly admire, such as James Shikwati of the Inter Region Economic Network. (Anyone interested…
A Quick Trip to California
I got back today from Guatemala, but have to leave tomorrow verrryyy early for some meetings in California, including talks at Chapman University. I’ll be back in Washington Wednesday night,…
Advancing Freedom Further
I’m in Tbilisi for our conference on “Freedom, Commerce, and Peace: A Regional Agenda.” It starts tomorrow evening, but many of the participants are arriving tonight (Tbilisi is a great…
Disgraceful and Disheartening
It’s awful to see engineers, marketers, and entrepreneurs on bended knee before a group of petty bureaucrats, who demand that producers spend their time catering to them, rather than producing…
Immigration and Freedom
My friend Constantino Diaz-Duran, now enrolled at Columbia University, has a smart and insightful essay in the Columbia Daily Spectator, “Message from an Immigrant: Please Don’t Help Us, You Missed…
Anderson Cooper, Intellectually Lazy or Just Not Analytically Gifted?
I’ve got the TV on in the background and CNN’s Anderson Cooper is reporting on the terrible state of affairs in Africa. He’s in the Democratic Republic of the Congo…
Emigration Worries
Inspection for Infectious Diseases: About the Only Coherent Argument for Immigration Controls** Most people who worry about such things worry about immigration, not emigration. They worry about all those hard-working…
A Couple of New Books
Among my responsibilities at the Cato Institute, I read most of our new books (ideally, before publication, since it never hurts to have more eyes catching errors, glitches, and infelicities…