Monday, August 27, 2007

The economics of happiness: just state control with a smile
Corin Taylor
The Business
25 Aug 2007

There is the pursuit of real happiness – and then there is the economics of happiness, a Brave New World of artificial well-being to which many deluded scientists have chosen to pin their hopes. In Aldous Huxley’s masterpiece, soma was the perfect fake... read more...

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Al Qaeda’s Travel Agent (The Wall Street Journal Europe, 21 Aug 2007, Page 13)

Al Qaeda’s Travel Agent
By Joseph Lieberman
The Wall Street Journal Europe
21 Aug 2007

The United States is at last making significant progress against al Qaeda in Iraq— but the road to victory now requires cutting off al Qaeda’s road to Iraq through Damascus. Thanks to Gen. David Petraeus’s new counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq, and... read more...