Weekend Links

Posted by Chris Moody

• Cato v. Heritage on the Patriot Act, Round II. Today’s topic: “Where are the demonstrated examples of abuses of liberties because of the Patriot Act? Are there any provisions of the law that civil libertarians would find acceptable?”

• Comparing the Great Depression to the current recession: Did we not learn anything?

• Re-examining the U.S. alliance with Japan: “The current relationship remains trapped in a world that no longer exists.”

• The human cost of delayed economic reform in India: “With earlier reform, 14.5 million more children would have survived, 261 million more Indians would have become literate, and 109 million more people would have risen above the poverty line.”

• How the free market can save health care.

• Podcast: What we should have learned from our experience in Somalia. Background reading: Somalia, Redux: A More Hands-Off Approach