Lamp of Liberty’s New Look
Thanks to long hours and lots of careful attention to detail on the part of my colleagues in this effort, the Lamp of Liberty (www.misbahalhurriyya.org) now has a new look,…
Political Theory
Lamp of Liberty’s New Look
Thanks to long hours and lots of careful attention to detail on the part of my colleagues in this effort, the Lamp of Liberty (www.misbahalhurriyya.org) now has a new look,…
Another Smart Blog
My former colleague Tim Lee has started up a new blog: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Blog.
The Bill of Rights: Casualty of the “War on Terror”
Jonathan Rauch rings the warning bell about civil liberties and the rule of law in his latest column in the National Journal, “Bush’s Battle Endangers The War.” After a brief…
The Bill of Rights: Casualty of the “War on Terror”
Jonathan Rauch rings the warning bell about civil liberties and the rule of law in his latest column in the National Journal, “Bush’s Battle Endangers The War.” After a brief…
An Effective Campaigner for the Legal Rights of People Who Agreed With Him to Speak and Organize
Frank Wilkinson has died. He was, according to the obituary writer at the New York Times, a campaigner for “free speech” and for “antipoverty” efforts. Um, right. It’s not until…
Go with the Flow
An innovative way to present the promise of freedom: FLOW.
Cosmopolitanism Defended
Kwame Anthony Appiah had an excellent and elegant defense of cosmopolitan liberalism in the New York Times magazine last Sunday: “The Case for Contamination.” It’s an important statement of a…
Islam and Toleration
A colleague just alerted me to the website of an organization dedicated to promoting toleration both for and among Muslims: the Libforall Foundation. It looks quite interesting — the mission…
Essay Contest on Individual Rights
If you’d like to write on the topic of individual rights in the Middle East (whether you live there or not), check out the “Dream Deferred” essay contest of the…