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Bird flu? Bird Schmoo!! Worried about the H5N1 bird flu virus causing a pandemic? The scientific evidence suggests the media scare that the H5N1 virus will cause a pandemic is mostly hype.

Introduction to Visions of Liberty
Where but in science fiction, the literature of the imagination, can we skim across the surface of black holes, dive into the sun, and journey to the beginning, the end, and the edge of the universe...And visit a society without government that works?...

Introduction to Give Me Liberty
When Patrick Henry spoke his immortal words, “Give me liberty or give me death,” on the eve of the American revolution, the last thing he expected was for the British to give him liberty. Indeed, in the history of mankind, you could count the number of benevolent rulers who have given people their liberty on the fingers of one hand—and still have plenty of fingers left over...

Socialism Begins at Home
Why aren’t people free? And more importantly, why aren’t people the world over demanding to be free? We can find the answer, I believe, in psychology; not in economics or philosophy...

Allende erred
What caused Allende’s downfall? The major factor, I argued in this 1973 article, was the revolt of the middle class.

On Hong Kong

The Liberation of the Chinese Woman — and the Chinese Entrepreneur
How the free market freed women and entrepreneurs in Hong Kong.

Float the Hong Kong dollar? Wait a minute...I want to sell it short first!
When the Thai baht collapsed in July 1997 the voices calling for the Hong Kong dollar’s “peg” to the US dollar to be abandoned became deafening. The Hong Kong dollar was “pegged” to the US dollar in October 1983 — after Hong Kong’s Money Panic almost destroyed the value of Hong Kong’s currency. It’s amazing how fast people forget. I wrote this article to remind them.

Hong Kong’s Money Panic
On Friday September 23rd, 1983, the Hong Kong dollar collapsed. 24 hours later, most banks and currency dealers had run out of US dollars, there were enormous lines at gold dealers’ windows as the people of Hong Kong rushed to convert their Hong Kong money into real assets. By Sunday afternoon all stores had been cleaned out of rice, cooking oil, and other storable goods...

Jobs for Everyone
Recently, on a ferry crossing Hong Kong’s harbor, I struck up a conversation with a black musician from Seattle. He told me how much he preferred living in Hong Kong to the States.What impressed him most about Hong Kong was that “everybody has a job!” Each time he repeated this comment his eyes would almost caress the Hong Kong skyline; and he spoke as if a place where everyone has a job was so alien to his experience, that he thought of Hong Kong as a fantasy land, a place that simply could not exist on earth...

The “Goddess of Democracy” and the
Future of Hong Kong
In the run-up to the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, I was often been asked my views on Hong Kong’s future. This article, written in 1991, was my response.

On Psychology

The Case of the “Reluctant” Virgin
At the age of 5, Soraya (not her real name) was circumcised, a common practice for Muslim girls in the country of her birth...

Transforming the “Monster” Within
This is the transcript of a session with a client had what he called a “monster in the basement, the dark side of my sexuality.” This was a part of him that obviously scared him. This is a unedited transcript of the tape-recording we made of the session where he met “The Monster Within.”

“Monster” versus “Shadow”
A commentary on the session documented in Transforming the “Monster” Within.

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