Peter Singer on Climate Change and Social Justice Friday afternoon, I drove into Manhattan, met up with Amy, and headed down to NYU’s Kimball Hall to hear celebrity utilitarian Peter Singer hold forth on the connection between “Ethics and Globalization.” Those of you who know me will discern that this is, on face, a recipe […]

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Terror, Poverty, and Drugs declare War on U.S. Just in case you needed proof that Amy kicks ass. Highly amusing… Onionesque, even.

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Just read an article by Ramesh Ponnuru from the print edition of National Review examining the politics of human rights organizations. Ponnuru observes that, to hear groups like Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch tell it, you might think the U.S. was a worse abuser of human rights than Iraq, China, or the Taliban. Assuming […]

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Now that I’m no longer jet-setting about, I decided that the best way to generate blog content would be to recycle my own work as much as possible. To that end, I’ll post my weekly LFB columns here, starting with this one: “For Public Use” Here’s a seemingly easy multiple-choice question. When the Nissan corporation […]

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Wow. So, Amy and I just won the massive Princeton parli debate tournament for the second year running. And, as I only realized after the fact, we managed to do so arguing libertarian positions in every single round, even on opposition! We got to defend fun stuff like gun ownership, “natural” rights (I hate that […]

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Well, I’m on the plane back to the good ol’ U.S.S.A., and that finally gives me some time (as long as the battery lasts, anyway) with which to regale you all with tales of my adventures. I know, I know, I’ve been a blog-slacker; but in fairness, Paris and Madrid are significantly more fun to […]

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Oy, what a lot of updating to do… Well; I suppose the main thing I’ve learned so far is that, although Campers are generally fabulous shoes, if your itinerary involves walking the cobbled streets of Europe’s major cities for hours each day, then dancing all night… buy a pair of trainers. Especially if you’re gonna […]

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Greetings from Prague, O my Brothers! Your humble narrator flew out of Madrid yesterday and, as you can viddy by my slovos, finally had a chance to read A Clockwork Orange. After a stop in Frankfurt, where I found myself having a drink with an Iranian engineer, to whom I apologized for my obnoxious country, […]

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Just got back from the Museu Thyssen-Bornemisza, where they were showing an exhibition of George Braques paintings, and a sumptuous late-lunch at a vegetarian place in midtown Madrid with my aunt. I leave for Prague tomorrow morning, and am pondering whether to further explore the Madrid nightlife, or stay here, get some work done, and […]

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It’s been a pretty busy three days, so I suppose I’ll run through it chronologically. If you’re here for politics content & couldn’t care less about my barhopping, skip to the 2nd section below. I’m probably going to use an expanded version of that account of the Barcelona protests as my LFB column next week. […]

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