Supremes Agree to Review Second Amendment Case
Our case is on the way to the Supreme Court. That includes a petition to reinstate standing for myself and the four others who were original plaintiffs. The heroic Bob…
Political Theory
Liberalism.ro
There’s a useful classical liberal website in Romanian: www.Liberalism.ro. (My little essay on globalization is included: “Globalizarea este minunatÄ?!.”)
Tanzania, Hamburg, “Freedom Properly Understood,” and Back
I am in Hamburg and quite exhausted, partially because I seem to have gotten something rather nasty in Tanzania. (The hospital here was noncommital, but they said to keep taking…
A Cool Breath of Reason
Bjorn Lomborg, author of Cool It: The Skeptical Enviromentalists’s Guide to Global Warming Bjorn Lomborg has a great essay in today’s Washington Post, “Chill out: Stop fighting over global warming…
Neatly Skewered
The soi disant deep thinker Naomi Klein has her deep thoughts brought up for a little sunlight by Tyler Cowen, “Shock Jock.” (I read her book No Logo years ago….
Is the Welfare State Justified?
I had the pleasure of interviewing Daniel Shapiro, an old friend and author of a very important new book, at an Institute for Humane Studies function on Friday. The book…
Presidency or Dictatorship?
George Will poses some excellent “Questions for Mukasey.” The first is especially good: The Bush administration says “the long war” — the war on terrorism — is a perpetual emergency…
Siloviki Statism
A very useful introduction to the political economy of the new Siloviki State: “The making of a neo-KGB state.”
On Liberty Now Available in Arabic
Thanks to the hard work of Fadi Haddadin, Ghaleb Hijazi, and our other Arab colleagues, John Stuart Mill’s classic work On Liberty is now available in Arabic, through the Cato…
A True Hero of Liberty
Baron József Eötvös de Vásárosnamény I met my old friends Ivan Csaba, whom I knew from the old days, as well as from Oxford, and Tamás Meszerics, whom I had…