WSJ plugs New ARI "outpost" in NY

This piece of publicity in the WSJ is a welcome development. And fwiw, the first debate in the series mentioned in the column should be available as a livestream on the ARC facebook page (click on the livestream link on Mar 10th at 6 PM EST).

Permission to Work

Tom Bowden highlights an interesting article in the WSJ. To me what's most interesting is that, just like the guilds of yesteryear, most of the regulation is demanded by the very people who'll be regulated. If that's not an argument for increasing the general (philosophical, historic and economic) knowledge of the average person, I don't know what is.

Glick on Egypt

I haven't been following the recent events and turmoil in Egypt, but nonetheless I found Caroline Glick's column thought-provoking.