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What is the “Chinese Dream”?
The short answer is that it is the new slogan that new Premier Xi Jinping (who hung out in Iowa as a youth) has come up with. The longer answer is that it is basically a knock-off of the “American...
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Are you a liberal imperialist? Stephen Walt asks the question and lists ten signs that you may be one. Will Obama attack Syria in the face of so many domestic scandals? Libertarians care about more...
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Optimism and Despair in a World of Injustice
The infamous development economist William Easterly recently tweeted that writing about spontaneous order without citing Friedrich Hayek is now “mainstream cool,” while writing about spontaneous order...
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Reading Hayek in Beijing
That’s the subject of a fascinating account of life in China through the eyes of a dissident in this last week’s Wall Street Journal. An excerpt: Put another way, the conventional notion that the...
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Istanbul: The Protests
A moderately Islamist government has been in power in Turkey for about 10 years now. Over the weekend it faced its first stern test. One brave Turkish blogger has decided to reach out to the rest of...
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Maryland v. King: Scalia’s Noble Dissent
I’m definitely not Antonin Scalia’s biggest fan, but – as the Cato Institute’s Walter Olson writes – “if there’s ever a time when Antonin Scalia really rises to the occasion, it’s when he serves as the...
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Impeach James Clapper
It’s very simple. The Director of National Intelligence needs to go. He lied to Congress about the NSA’s totalitarian PRISM program. That’s as serious and subversive a lie as can be told to Congress...
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Around the web: other civil libertarian perspectives on privacy
1) Scroll back through Umair Haque’s Twitter feed to June 10 for a series of salty, pointed critiques of David Brooks’ recent hatchet job-cum-subsidiarity Jeremiad. 2) Three essays from Jacob...
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Snowden and Me
[Cross-posted at Facts Matter] Much unnecessary hoopla about Mr Snowden. Much conspiracy theorizing on conservative radio (but not on Rush Limbaugh). I think things are pretty much the way they look....
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The Real IRS Problem
It’s heartening to see distrust and resentment of the IRS building up in the wake of the targeting of tea party groups and such. But let’s not overlook the daily predations of the IRS, small and large,...
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Buddhist Leaders Call on Myanmar to Expel Muslims
From the New York Times: After a ritual prayer atoning for past sins, Ashin Wirathu, a Buddhist monk with a rock-star following in Myanmar, sat before an overflowing crowd of thousands of devotees and...
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Edward Snowden is a Commie
So says Max Boot at Commentary, a neoconservative publication that specializes in lies and slander to further the imperialist cause (there is, if you think about it, no other way to further a cause...
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Internal Revenue Service Even Handed After All
[Cross-posted at Facts Matter] Liberal commentators in all media and even on this blog have been eager to announce that the IRS was an equal opportunity offender between Left and Conservative groups...
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The Immigration “Reform” Bill: RINOs, Labor Unions and a Libertarian Alternative
Nobody is happy with the current immigration reform package being shoved through Congress at the moment. I don’t know too much about the specifics of the bill, or even about immigration itself (except...
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No Capitalism Means No Peace: Egypt Edition
I just briefly touched on this in an earlier post, but I thought I’d bring in another perspective to shore up my argument. Fraser Nelson, writing in the UK’s Telegraph, explains some of the important...
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From the Comments: Open Borders, Immigration and the Sociology of Gradualism
Dr Delacroix takes issue with my woefully inadequate summary of his work on open borders in the Independent Review. He writes: Small yet somewhat important correction: In our piece in the Independent...
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The Zimmerman Verdict, Racism and Trial by Jury
First of all, I have to admit up front that I had not been following the Zimmerman trial at all until the Not Guilty verdict flooded my Twitter feed and Facebook page. The case was just too common, too...
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La mort d’un jeune homme, le verdict, la montee du fascisme, le racisme.
[Cross-posted at Facts Matter] Je suis desole pour le manque d’accents et de cedilles. Avec mon logiciel de traitement de texte americain ils sont simplement trop difficiles a former. Introduction Fin...
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Zimmerman, Martin and Racism in America: Who’s Really Promoting Prejudice?
Campaigners chose to make Trayvon Martin the focus for a national discussion of race in America. But it was never going to lead to an enlightened and rational debate. In seeking to personalise the...
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Quentin Skinner on Liberty and Security
I think it very important that the mere fact of there being surveillance takes away liberty. The response of those who are worried about surveillance has so far been too much couched, it seems to me,...
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