Throw the Jew down the well

Sacha Baron Cohen (SBC) is just the most amazing phenomenon. For the first time in what seems decades, we actually have biting satire instead of humour. Unlike Friends, Seinfeld and others – which just take what is ordinary about life and turn it into sit-com,...

I will be speaking in Davos on the Art of Banking

I have been invited to speak at an excecutive on the Art of Banking which is being run by Robert Kennedy College. The course is taking place in Davos from January 29th to 2nd February 2007, and is being run by Professor David Costa, who is the Dean of Robert Kennedy...

My views on airport security

Solomonia has links to a couple of videos. The one on airport security summarizes my views entirely. And here’s another: Solomonia

The Marriage Market in Babylonia according to Herodotus Histories

I recently re-subscribed to the Journal of Political Economy – published by the University of Chicago school fo economics. On the most recent issue, here is the entry for the back page: The most ingenious in my opinion is a custom which, I understand, they share...

Edward Luttwak weighs in on the Israel – Lebanon war

Edward Luttwak has some important perspective and commentary on the recent war: Lebanon 2006: misreading war, once again. In the immediate aftermath of the 1973 October War, there was much joy in the Arab world because the myth of Israeli invincibility had been...