In my review of Brian Doherty's Radicals for Capitalism I mentioned the Cato Institute's online symposium, which utilizes the book as a take-off point for a discussion about the libertarian movement in general, and I note here the posting of Virginia Postrel's...

Today Daniel Ellsberg, Justin Raimondo, Rabbi Michael Lerner and many others spoke at the Stop Funding the War rally outside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office. MP3 audio here. (89:54) (Justin's part is at 62:46)

Iron Lady Against the Machine: She’s seen ’em all and these are the worst.

Barack, Hillary, and John Edwards: The Contest for Most Loyal to AIPAC

A slick White House flack clarifies the war's progress on CNN: "We're still at the input stage."

Thousands of Nukes in the World: They must be abolished

The Unitary Executive Strikes Back: The PATRIOT Act and the U.S. Attorney Scandal

Kidnapped, Rescued, Then Shot: An Italian Reporter’s Iraq Ordeal

Murray Waas, one of the best investigative journalists in DC, has a new piece on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s role in derailing a Justice Department investigation of his own possible criminality. Waas notes at the National Journal: Shortly before Attorney...

Here is Slate editor Jacob Weisberg, writing in the Financial Times about the latest American Enterprise Institute shindig, where neocon bigwig Bernard Lewis received an award and made a speech defending the Crusades as the first phase of the necessary struggle...