Score One for the Rule of Law!
Pakistan’s top judge reinstated
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Danish Decency
Danish army evacuates 200 Iraqis
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The Center for Promotion of Human Rights
African Libertarianism
The Imani Center in Ghana is organizing a seminar in Accra on Inspiring African Transformation. I’m listed on the program, although sadly I won’t be able to be there this…
The New York Times Intones
I Look Forward to a News Conference Announcing U.S. Disengagement A bit of hard-headed thinking seems to have reached the upper levels of the commentariat. Today’s New York Times has…
The Bottom Billion
This review by Niall Ferguson (combined with my knowledge of other work by Collier that I’ve read) spurred me to order Paul Collier’s new book, The Bottom Billion: Why the…
One of Many Reasons Why the Invasion of Iraq Was a Mistake
It provided other states in the region with a relatively low-cost way to bleed America, both in the literal sense and in the financial sense: “Coalition raids target flow of…
My Interview in a Tunisian Paper
I was interviewed by a Tunisian journalist whom I met at a conference Cato co-sponsored in Morocco. Here’s the interview in Mouwatinoun. (The name of the paper means “Citizens.” You…
New American Dictatorship
Not just the one that the Bush administration has tried (and so far largely failed) to create, but another one: “Caracas rallies over TV closure.” Revealing Quotes: Pro-Chavez supporters held…
The Direction is Clear
Moscow police detain gay activists. Eggs and punches at Russia gay march. Notably, it was the peaceful gay activists who were arrested, not the people who assaulted them. This is…