The ‘American Library’ of Leuven

The ‘American Library’ of Leuven
Recently, while in Belgium, I found myself in great need of a large research library. Investigating the possibilities, I soon learned that the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) had such a library — with Leuven being just 20 few minutes away from my residence by train.
Entering the foyer of the [...]

You Do the Math

You do the math.
Someone told me a couple of years ago that he thought we needed to militarily intervene in Iraq because “Somebody’s got to teach those people how to think, don’t they?”
Well, if we wanted to teach them to think, maybe we could have spent our trillion dollars (direct and indirect costs) a little [...]

Most Americans Perceive a Negative Effect of Iraq War

Most Americans Perceive a Negative Effect of Iraq War
Since March 2003, the Gallup Organization has conducted regular–every one or two months–polls of American attitudes towards the Iraq war. The results here are from the March 2006 wave.
Question 23. Do you think that U.S. involvement in the war against Iraq has had a positive effect [...]

Cost of Iraq War

At the Iraq war outset, the Bush administration produced an initial cost estimate of about $250 billion. They also announced that, using oil revenue, Iraq could “refinance its own reconstruction.”
Two economists, Linda Bilmes and Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, have now estimated the total (current and future) cost of the Iraq war to US [...]