Travel


Will They Serve Pretzels?

The first commercial spaceships for passenger travel are being built for entrepreneur Richard Branson of Virgin by Mojave Aerospace Ventures. According to the BBC: “‘Every passenger will have a spectacular…

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Barcelona to D.C.

I’m getting ready to fly back to D.C. tomorrow from Barcelona. I’ve gotten some work done and managed to visit some of the architectural wonders of Antoni Gaudi (Sagrada Familia,…

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Back to California

I got back from California around midnight Thursday, got in to the office today, and head back to California on Saturday for the Freedom Communications meeting in the town I…

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Beeeuuuutiful San Diego Weather

Just got in to San Diego for the start of the Cato University 2004 summer seminar. After sweltering heat and humidity in our nation’s Swamp (D.C.), the weather here is…

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Munich and the Alps

I’m writing this from the easyInternetcafe in Munich near the Hauptbahnhof. I took part in a program on education and research in Germany sponsored by the Council on Public Policy,…

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Brown University

I just got in to Brown University to give three talks on globalization at a seminar of the Institute for Humane Studies. (I have to admit that I’m at the…

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San Francisco

I love San Francisco, possibly the most gracious and at the same time brilliantly exciting city in north America. I spent the day today (while suffering from a poisoning of…

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Hamburg

I had forgotten what a lovely city is Hamburg, where I’m taking part in the MPS meeting. The weather is, of course, unpredictable (rain, sun, rain, sun), but the air…

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Off to Germany and Russia

I leave Wednesday night for Germany and Russia to take part in two important international classical liberal conferences. (I’ll spend a day and a half with good friends in DÃ?Â?Ã?¼sseldorf…

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From Baghdad to San Diego

It’s a rather weird feeling to write this in a Starbucks in Del Mar, California, after Baghdad. I very much want to go back. I hardly know Baghdad and my…

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