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Naguib Mahfouz I’m not as literary a person as I ought to be, but even I know the work of Naguib Mahfouz, who just died. His name came up a…

I’ve been “TB2B” (“Too Busy To Blog”) lately, but I hope to get that Powerpoint from the Amsterdam event on my site soon. Also, I’ve found that a link to…

Friends of Democracy I’m having a great time with and learning from the journalists and bloggers at the conference. Some people from the Grandma of Arabic blogs, Friends of Democracy…

There’s no end to the media fawning over the evil-dictator-for-life of Cuba, Fidel Castro. Alexandre Trudeau has a despicable slurp over the near-dead tyrant in which he gives evidence that…

The long-term survival of liberty and prosperity in Hong Kong depends on the rule of law. The proxy for that is the movement for democracy, which is still alive and…

I don’t often agree with him on issues regarding Iraq, but this column by James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal strikes me as a sensible commentary on the responses…

Thanks to the hard work of my colleagues in the Lamp of Liberty project, essays and articles from a libertarian point of view are now appearing in newspapers in a…

Thanks to the hard work of my colleagues in the Lamp of Liberty project, essays and articles from a libertarian point of view are now appearing in newspapers in a…

In the 1890s Nude Cycling Was At Least More Stylish To protest “dependence on oil and the vulnerability of cyclists using roads,” groups of cyclists doffed their clothes (and reason)…

Behavior: It’s Addictive I’m tempted to write that I found this story about “Internet Addiction” after many hours of aimless surfing the net, but actually I just got back from…