Morning roundup

• Leeson and Pirates in the New Yorker (HT: Marginal Revolution)


• Alex Tabarrok's theory on why Latvian women are beautiful. Note the position of New Zealand on the chart!


• New Zealand's property market recovers


• Ezra Levant will be pleased: Canada's Supreme Court strikes down hate speech law (or at least the penalty provisions) as contrary to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Readers unfamiliar with Levant's battles with Canada's speech censors really ought to read his blog or pick up his book.


• And peak oil keeps moving farther off into the distance. HT: Hickey.