My last big project for Cato before I left was to edit and “Americanize” Johan Norberg’s excellent book In Defense of Global Capitalism. I’ve just gotten my grubby little hands on a copy of the new edition, which means it should be ready to order soon. Now, I swear I’m not just saying this because […]

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Jim Henley observes that the phrase loses some of its bite when our actions really are morally equivalent to those of the other side.

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My most recent piece is up at Reason, inspired by a trip to Remote Lounge this weekend.

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Since I spend an awful lot of time here ragging on NR, it seems only fair to point out that Jonah Goldberg’s dissection of a very silly Berkeley study of the conservative mentality is quite clever—I laughed out loud in a couple of spots, even.

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There are any number of legitimate reasons to take issue with a group like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. That’s why it’s sad to see Wesley J. Smith launch into a factually-challenged, misleading screed targeting PETA’s campaign against KFC. The general tenor of the piece is so thoroughly histrionic that I can only […]

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Will Wilkinson devotes far more space and mental energy to bitch-slapping the preposterous arguments of the “natural law” crowd than they merit. The upside is that if you know anyone mentally deficient enough to think that essentialist medieval physics are relevant to modern policy debates, you can point them here.

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Turns out my birthday is National Freedom of Information Day. I’m pretty sure that’s a fresh-minted holiday, but I’ll take what I can get.

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Call it the Onion effect, or as Radley likes to say: “Reality, parody inch closer.” It’s getting so that I can’t even tell what’s serious anymore. Take this morning. I awaken to NPR’s Morning Edition listening to what sounds like a story about a new movie. The reporter’s voice is unusually breathy and languid, even […]

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Most of y’all probably noticed already, but Matt Yglesias is back from Europe and blogging up a storm.

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I’ve just had a psychotic fit of posting over at Hit and Run; you can read a dozen or so shorter bits there.

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