“On the afternoon of January 6, most Americans watched in horror as an armed mob stormed the US Capitol….” (Emphasis mine.) This is part of the opening sentence of an essay in the Wall St...
https://notesonliberty.com/2021/01/27/how-falsehoods-take-root/
There is a new UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. It contains nothing but bad news, of course. But I am busy with my real life; I have obligations to others; I have to feed myse...
https://notesonliberty.com/2019/09/28/global-warming-take-off-my-sweater/
Power, Islam, and Pragmatism in Turkish Strategy Anthropology, Empire and Modernity Would New Borders Mean Less Conflict in the Middle East? Cairo: A Museum of Ghosts Obama in London Rand back to...
The WSJ of 7/9/15 shows a comparative table for some European Union countries of spending on pensions as a share of GDP. This comparison denotes roughly the drag effect that payments to retirees ...
Sen. Rand Paul, the nominally Republican presidential candidate, has inherited an uncommon trait from his father. He manages to inspire distrust in his credibility even as he conveys a message I ...
https://notesonliberty.com/2015/06/19/senator-rand-paul-on-taxes-chip-off-the-old-block/
Reading the capital letters between the stately lines of today’s Wall Street Journal, I conclude that Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert paid 3.5 million dollars in hush money to a blackmailer...
https://notesonliberty.com/2015/05/31/the-gop-as-a-homosexual-cabala/
I can only list, in order of magnitude, three: 1) Republican hawks, 2) condescending Leftists, and 3) anti-Americans abroad. In some ways none of this is surprising. All three of these factions ...
https://notesonliberty.com/2014/12/20/the-most-embarrassing-factions-of-the-us-cuba-detente/
Ed Lazear had an outstanding op-ed, “Government Dries Up California’s Water Supply,” in the June 26 Wall Street Journal. It brings me back to 1982, when I first moved to California fro...
https://notesonliberty.com/2014/06/29/ed-lazears-wsj-op-ed-on-californias-water-problems-2/
Reading Tocqueville in Qatar and at Georgetown Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism: Blame Nationalism for Both The Issue of Selective Prosecution Eric Prince: Out of Blackwater and into China; The ...
The Wall Street Journal has a weekend interview feature with an entrepreneur who founded Airbnb, a company that has been getting rich by exploiting the so-called “sharing economy.” Overall it...
https://notesonliberty.com/2014/01/19/some-quick-thoughts-about-political-entrepreneurship/