In another one of those Washington insider stories every Serious Person is required to care about, Brink Lindsey and Will Wilkinson, two noted "liberaltarians," have allegedly been "purged" from the Cato Institute (that's Dave Weigel's theory, anyway, so take it for...
On his Twitter feed Monday, Dave Weigel, journalist, posted the following (emphasis mine): The WikiLeaks Afghan dump is depressing. Very tired of our effort there being subjected to this kind of crap. When Glenn Greenwald pressed Weigel to clarify what "kind of crap"...
Well, the Swiss – or, more accurately, a majority of voters in democratic Switzerland – have gone and done something wrong and dumb, approving a referendum that bans the construction of minarets. Libertarian demerits are certainly in order. But one very wrong,...
Kelley Vlahos has a great piece today on the Henry Gates affair and the larger problems of which it's a symptom. One such problem is the ever increasing number of pretexts on which the authorities can interrogate, search, assault, and arrest citizens. The authority...
There's a lot to ponder in this open letter to Barack Obama from Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa, et al., but I'll stick to this part: We have to cherish and protect the multitude of educational, professional, and other networks and friendships that underpin our friendship...
Maybe this post by George Hawley, "Solving Non-Interventionism’s Tough-Guy Problem," wasn't directed at Antiwar.com, but I'll address some excerpts from it anyway. In the years since I abandoned my status as a typical neoconservative chicken hawk and adopted Old...
