Four of Illinois’s last eight governors went to prison. We’re batting .500, if I’m counting correctly. I don’t know if that’s bad news (Illinois has more corruption) or good news (We’re better at catching the bastards). Here’s Wikipedia’s list: “Otto Kerner, Jr. (D) was 33rd Governor of Illinois … Kerner was convicted on 17 counts […]
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I’ll be speaking tomorrow in Chicago at the FMRS event, along with Matt Kibbe (President and Chief Community Organizer, Free the People) and Barbara Kolm (President, Friedrich A. v. Hayek Institute). The event is sponsored by the Austrian Economics Center, and its theme is this: The 2017 FMRS brings together leading business people, outstanding scholars,
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Two of my articles on entrepreneurship-related themes are published in Portuguese translation at the Junior Achievement Brasil site: “Educando para o empreendedorismo” and “O que a ética empresarial pode aprender com o empreendedorismo?”
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According to this essay, published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography. Ordinarily we cite to give credit for scholarly accomplishment and to aid other scholars in their research. But some things are more important than justice and knowledge!!
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Keynote speech this November on Figurative Art and Philosophy.
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Our CEE interview with Southern Methodist University economist Robert Lawson. Dr. Lawson answers these questions and more about his life and work: Why did you become an economist? What readings were inspirational to you as a student? Where did you get your undergraduate degree? Why did you decide to go to graduate school? Where did
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From his autobiography, about his first trip to America in 1925: “Without stopping to describe my visual impressions on landing in New York — skyscrapers, traffic, lights, Negroes, cinemas, theatres, in fact all that rouses the curiosity of foreigners, and very rightly so — I want to begin by bearing witness as a musician to
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[Herder (1744-1802) was an early Counter-Enlightenment voice calling for group identity politics and value relativism, along with a rejection of cultural appropriation and an embrace of zero-sum cultural conflict. The following is excerpted from Explaining Postmodernism.] Herder on multicultural relativism Sometimes called the “German Rousseau,”[1] Johann Herder had studied philosophy and theology at Königsberg University. Kant was
Johann Herder as prophet of the contemporary university Read More »