A Peek Into Our International Network
Raja Kamal and I have written several articles on Kareem’s case (for the Washington Post, the Beirut Daily Star, and other publications). Thanks to the hard work, initiative, and dedication…
Foreign Affairs
African Libertarianism
Amid all the awful things in the world that are cause for depression, one sometimes finds cause for hope. And the African classical liberals I met are high on the…
A Cause for Optimism
I’ve met quite a few remarkably impressive libertarians and classical liberals from African countries at the Mont Pelerin Society meeting in Kenya. After hearing so much pessimism about Africa (and…
Media Exposure in the Middle East
Just a little bragging about what a privilege it is to work with my colleagues in the Middle East. Ghaleb Hijazi has been getting an enormous number of articles in…
Beating Up Gays and Lesbians for Fun!
The Mayor of Moscow has said again that he’s not going to allow any “satanic” demonstrations in what he no doubt considers “his” city. Last year the handful of brave…
Croatia on the Wrong Road
My friends at the Croatia-based Adriatic Institute for Public Policy sent me the following disturbing update: Croatia’s Security and Counter-Intelligence Agency (SOA) Augment “Security Checks” on NGOs Rather than strengthening…
Reasoned Comment on the Lebanese Crisis
Michael Young of Beirut’s Daily Star offers a helpful guide to the Lebanese crisis at Reason.com, “Can Anyone Fix Lebanon?: International aid can’t change the climate around Beirut.” Young doesn’t…
When Did Justin Raimondo and Lew Rockwell Start Doing CNN Weather Forecasts?
UPDATE: It seems that they’ve been replaced as weather forecasters, since the page has been corrected. UPDATE: An otherwise clever and observant friend didn’t quite get the point of the…
Ugly Nationalism Hangs On
The Serbian Radical Party, which plunged Yugoslavia into war and genocide and inflicted immense misery on the Serbian people, seems to have polled 28.5% of the vote in the Serbian…
The Surge “Strategy”
The January 11, 2006 Cato Podcast by Patrick Basham on President Bush’s “Surge ‘Strategy’” was quite insightful. (Click here and scroll down to January 11.) The situation is spiraling ever…