A Positive Sign of Healthy Debate and Discussion in the Muslim World
“Muslims debate Pope’s speech reaction”
Foreign Affairs
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…
Buy a Present of Georgian Wine
If you’re thinking about a great present for someone special, consider a gift of Georgian wine. Today’s New York Times has two great essays on the improvements in the Georgian…
African Libertarianism
Some of the bravest fighters for liberty are on the continent of Africa. People who wish to advance freedom in places that desperately need liberty, well defined and legally secure…
At Last: “Freedom and Jihad: The Middle East and Europe”
Through the good offices of my friend P.J. Doland, I have finally gotten the PDF of my Poweroint presentation at the Reason conference in Amsterdam uploaded: “Freedom and Jihad: The…
Let Us Hope….
I hope, but am not terribly hopeful, that the newly brokered truce in Lebanon will be implemented and will hold. Witnessing from afar the loss of innocent lives — Israeli…
Two Interesting Takes on Cuba
In a Model Democratic Transition, Cuba’s “Civilian” Leader Has Been Replaced by the Head of Cuba’s Military for Fifty Years, His Brother RaÃ?Â??Ã?Â?Ã?ºl Christopher Hitchens points out in Slate that…
A Warning from King Abdullah
This BBC interview with Jordan’s King Abdullah is well worth watching.
We Are the People! We Cannot Lose!!!
The aspiring totalitarian Democratic Revolution Party in Mexico, which split off from the weakening authoritarian Institutional Revolutionary Party, is insisting on calling people into the streets to paralyze the country…
Mideast Youth Blog
I was contacted by a student from the Middle East to alert me to a new blog from a moderate pro-civil society perspective: Mideastyouth.com. The latest blog entry is a…