By Apr 24,2008

Clear for Second-Class Citizenship?

Something about Clear, the private-sector answer to gross DHS inefficiency and questionable airport employees, raises my civic republican hackles. From one perspective, it now looks like the government is permitting...

By Apr 24,2008

Kish Cash

Is Hossein Sabet the Persian answer to Dubai? Or the Iranian Rick Caruso? Probably a little of both: He has built this island’s fanciest establishment, the Dariush Grand Hotel, modeled...

By Apr 24,2008

Step Into My Office

So a little introduction is probably in order to kick off this blog. Some of you I know, some of you I’m meeting for the first time. In the event...

By Feb 25,2008

The Virginia School

Even academic departments famous for having a “character” are far from intellectually homogenous, but they do suggest certain family resemblances. George Mason University’s economics department is populated by many libertarians,...