Originally published in the August 2009 issue of Liberty Magazine, this reflection discusses India’s 2009 general election, Sonia Gandhi’s Congress Party, caste politics, criminal parliamentarians, Manmohan Singh, and the uncertainty of reform.
In this Frank Talk article for U.S. Global Investors, I discuss my visit to gold projects in Colombia, including Ventana Gold’s La Bodega project, Greystar Resources’ Angostura project, and improving security conditions.
Originally published in the March 2009 issue of Liberty Magazine, this article discusses India’s economic growth story and the corruption, bureaucracy, poverty, social hierarchy, and institutional weakness beneath the surface.
Originally published in the March 2009 issue of Liberty Magazine, this reflection discusses superstition, fatalism, bad luck, culture, institutions, and the avoidance of personal responsibility.
Originally published in The Casey Report in January 2009, this article offers an insider’s perspective on India’s economy, poverty, corruption, cheap labor, infrastructure, social unrest, and the risks behind India’s growth story.
Originally published in the January–February 2009 issue of Liberty Magazine, this piece discusses India’s technological ambitions and the contrast with hunger, poverty, weak infrastructure, superstition, bureaucracy, and social dysfunction.
Originally published at Le Québécois Libre, this article discusses Slumdog Millionaire and what the film reveals about stress, violence, poverty, corruption, insecurity, and everyday life in India.
Originally published in the November 2008 issue of Liberty Magazine, this reflection discusses paternalism, social control, dependency, parental authority, and the weakening of individual responsibility.
Originally published in the November 2008 issue of Liberty Magazine, this piece discusses muckrakers, corruption, public criticism, institutional decay, and the importance of exposing hypocrisy in public life.
Originally published in the September 2008 issue of Liberty Magazine, this piece discusses the fall of Nepal’s monarchy and what it revealed about power, legitimacy, tradition, democracy, and social disorder.