Is that diploma you went into debt for worth the sheepskin it’s printed on? Reason Senior Editor Tim Cavanaugh will talk about the higher education bubble on Neil Cavuto’s Fox Business News show this afternoon. Time: Approx.
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Tim Cavanaugh Talks Higher Education Bubble With Cavuto on Fox Biz
Reporting from Massachusetts, Senior Editor Michael C. Moynihan profiles Republican congressional candidate Sam Meas, a refugee from the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge and the self-professed “new face of the Republican party.” View this article
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New at Reason: Michael C. Moynihan on Cambodian Refugee and Self-Described Reagan Republican Sam Meas
The word liberty is used a lot but it’s not often that individuals think deeply about what the word means, says Rebecca Hoffberger, the founder of Baltimore’s American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM.) Hoffberger’s goal with AVAM was to create “a grassroots salon that would tackle all the great themes that have ever bedeviled and inspired human kind.” The most recent exhibition, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness featured a wide range of self-taught artists including Saddam Hussein’s personal doctor, Ala Bashir, and a schizophrenic hoarder named Dick Lubinsky. The exhibition provides an unforgettable commentary on an American truism.
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Reason.tv: Life, Liberty & Happiness – Q&A with American Visionary Art Museum’s Rebecca Hoffberger
I was struck by British Defense Minister Liam Fox’s description of the new Medal of Honor video game set in Afghanistan. He called it “thoroughly un-British,” a phrase that presumably refers to something more than the game’s country of origin
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Why Is ‘Un-British’ Bad?
Only time will tell if Operation Iraqi Freedom was a blunder, writes Cathy Young. But it is not too early to say that Americans are not the villains in this story. As Young explains, that role belongs to the dictator who drove so many of his subjects to welcome a foreign invasion, and to the extremists who unleashed carnage on their own.
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New at Reason: Cathy Young on the Legacy of the Iraq War
Human Events , still Ronald Reagan’s favorite publication, has interviewed Reason’s Nick Gillespie as part of Lisa De Pasquale’s ongoing feature, De Pasquale’s Dozen (for an archive, go here ). Snippets: 1.
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You’ve Seen Ocean’s Eleven. Now Experience Gillespie’s Dozen.
Ring in Labor Day with this news: The U.S. shed another 54,000 jobs in August, slightly advancing the 9.6 percent unemployment rate
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The Summer of Recovery Is Over; The Fall of the Economy Is Here
How to make a libertarian’s head explode : a bank bailout… in Afghanistan .
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Reason Morning Links: Scanners Edition
Via Washington Examiner columnist Mark Hemingway comes news that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, who once denounced homosexual Cubans as “faggots” ( maricones ) who served the interests of imperialism, has “taken blame” for his revolution’s “excesses” against gay Cubans, which once included sending sexual counterrevolutionaries to prison camps. After offering a string of lame excuses—he was too busy thwarting American plots to stop sending his citizens to prison for being gay—Castro stopped short of actually apologizing. As Hemingway notes , Castro’s persecution of gays (and black Cubans) hardly stopped in the 1970s, as this Reuters stor y suggests, with gay bars routinely shut down by the state security service and organizers of a 2008 gay pride march thrown in jail
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A Caudillo’s Own Story
* Late reviews of Carly Fiorina/Barbara Boxer debate: Sac Bee ’s Dan Walters says Boxer won . OC Register ’s Brian Joseph calls the whole debate a ” dud ” and a “letdown,” while 58 percent of Register readers give the win to Carly in a web poll.
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California Roundup: Who Won? Who Pays? Who’s Stoned? And More
