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The Irish politician and writer who died Friday has been widely lionized. Although O’Brien was quite the liberal both in his career with the Irish Labour Party and in his work for the United Nations — under whose auspices, but without any real authorization, he waged a war against anticommunist secessionists in Katanga — a [...]
Filed under: Books
Just two months after the twin towers fell, the armies of the Northern Alliance marched into Kabul. The Taliban fled. The triumph was total in the “splendid little war” that had cost one U.S. casualty. Or so it seemed. Yet, last month, the war against the Taliban entered its eighth year, the second longest war [...]
Filed under: War
The conservative movement as we know it today was largely built by Paul Weyrich, who died Dec. 18 at age 66. He was the key institution-builder of the 1970s New Right — he established the Heritage Foundation, gave Jerry Falwell the name and inspiration for the Moral Majority, and founded a number of other influential, [...]
Filed under: Conservatism
Sean, although I wish Reason‘s coverage of the Paul campaign had been more positive (I worked in the campaign’s press shop, so I don’t claim to be objective here), there are several things that have to be kept in mind. For one, David Weigel is a reporter first and a libertarian second: if he’s assigned [...]
Filed under: libertarianism, Magazines
In a recent article, New battle for commanding heights I argued that: The American economy has been on this slippery slope of government intervention in the economy since the start of the financial crisis, with huge segments of the financial sectors being ‘saved’ by Washington (or not being saved, like in the case of Lehman [...]
In this Christmas season, Reason magazine Associate Editor (soon-to-be employed at the Economist) keeps getting the gift that keeps on giving to him and that’s the infamous newsletters from 1989-1994 that Ron Paul’s name was attached to where unflattering things were said about Martin Luther King Jr., Barbara Jordan, welfare recipients, LA rioters and black criminals in [...]
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Nothing against Caroline Kennedy, who is a perfectly nice lady, good mom, etc. But is there any reason that New York’s appointed senator can’t be someone who just once has said something courageous and correct, or had an original idea on a public policy issue and expressed it? Why should she be chosen ahead of [...]
Filed under: Congress, Uncategorized
Kind of instructive to read the “due diligence” claims made by Walter Noel’s Fairfield Greenwich Group, which supposedly lost $7.5 billion by parking its money with Bernie Madoff.
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We will soon know much more about Bernie Madoff’s massive fraud, and the menschiness and studied ethno-philanthropy which made him so irresistible to Jewish investors. But Madoff’s scheme at least required intelligence and a great deal of nerve– there’s a well-worn Yiddish word for it. Just as emblematic is the case of Walter Noel, subject [...]
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Throwing shoes at people isn’t polite. But video games aren’t real, so enjoy Sock and Awe — about a million other people have so far. (H/t to Eric Margolis.)
Filed under: Satire