From a Der Spiegel interview with Kenyan (not Keynesian) economics expert James Shikwati:
SPIEGEL: Mr. Shikwati, the G8 summit at Gleneagles is about to beef up the development aid for Africa...
Shikwati: ... for God’s sake, please just stop.
SPIEGEL: Stop? The industrialized nations of the West want to eliminate hunger and poverty.
In the vast stretches of America, William Penn envisaged a truly Quaker colony, “a Holy experiment…that an example may be set up to the nations.”
I’ve added three films to Films on Liberty and the State: The Americanization of Emily, The Man Who Would Be King and Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War dealing with war, empire and conscription respectively. Though spanning 40 years they are, I am afraid, all films for our time.
[This paper was presented at the symposium on the Origins and Development of Property Rights, Institute of Humane Studies, University of San Francisco, January 1973. It was published in Reason Papers.]
I recently stumbled on an old article in The Village Voice called ‘The Goldbug Variations’ by Julian Dibbell .
Written in early 2002, it is a review of sorts, both of the book Cra$hmaker and of the sound-money movement in general.
Pentagon Weighs Strategy Change (NYT)
The Pentagon’s most senior planners are challenging the longstanding strategy that requires the armed forces to be prepared to fight two major wars at a time. Instead, they are weighing whether to shape the military to mount one conventional campaign while devoting more resources to defending American territory and antiterrorism efforts.
