Anthony Clark Arend

Earlier today, Professor James O’Donnell, Provost of Georgetown University, sent out this tribute to Chris Joyner.

Dear colleagues,
We lost Chris Joyner this weekend.  He passed away Saturday evening
after a brief and implacable illness, surrounded by family and by the
thoughts, prayers, and memories of many colleagues and friends.  He
was 63, 22 years at Georgetown.
This is a tough one for many of us, …

The terror attacks of September 11, 2001 were tragic on so many levels. On this 10th anniversary of that horrific day, our minds turn immediately to the souls and the families of the nearly-3000 people who lost their lives that day. Indeed, I think in particular of my Georgetown colleague, Leslie A. Whittington, who was on American Flight 77– along …

My dear friend Steve Bainbridge posts:
Russell Kirk once asked:
Are we to saturation-bomb most of Africa and Asia into righteousness, freedom, and democracy? And, having accomplished that, however would we ensure persons yet more unrighteous might not rise up instead of the ogres we had swept away?
With that in mind, and while in now …

In celebration of International Youth Day, the United Nations Photo Library has posted some great pictures! Enjoy!
(HT: Martha Heinemann Bixby)

My friend Mark Vlasic has an excellent article in The Guardian on the need to combat illicit trade in antiquities. Vlasic, a Senior Fellow at Georgetown’s Institute for Law, Science, and Global Security, writes:

The allegations could have come straight out of an Indiana Jones movie. Three art dealers and a collector have been accused of running an antiquities smuggling ring …

The New York Times is reporting that the United States and Mexico have been developing “innovative” methods for addressing the challenge of drug cartels. According to the Times,
The United States is expanding its role in Mexico’s bloody fight against drug trafficking organizations, sending new C.I.A. operatives and retired military personnel to the country and considering plans to deploy private …

From the UNDP website:
With an HIV prevalence of 2.1 percent among adults, Belize has the highest HIV prevalence in Central America and the third-highest in the Caribbean after the Bahamas and Haiti, according to a 2007 study. UNAIDS estimates some 3,600 people are currently living with HIV in Belize, 2,000 of them women.
Belize has a total …