In a session organized by Peter Calcagno (College of Charleston) on the theme of Philosophy of Freedom (APEE Session 2.F.7, Monday, April 10, 2017, 2:30-3:45 pm), I’ll be speaking on the theme of “What Does It Mean to Educate for Freedom?” In part, my talk will draw on my “What Entrepreneurship Can Teach Us All About Life” article […]
“What Does It Mean to Educate for Freedom?” — APEE conference talk Read More »
I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert … near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lips, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped
“Ozymandias,” Percy Bysshe Shelley Read More »
On recognizing what one does and does not know: “But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult
Isaac Newton as *philosopher* of science Read More »
In my “Where are all those free-market economists who caused the financial crisis?”, I cited survey results showing that very few professional economists are deregulation advocates, and I cited data indicating an increase in regulation in the lead-up to the crisis. Here is Regdata’s more recent “Did Deregulation Cause the Financial Crisis? Examining a Common
Before the 2008 financial crisis: increasing or decreasing regulation? Read More »
[A discussion post.] President Trump’s now-serious proposal to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities has elicited the first round of responses ranging from Philistine! to It’s about time! Both agencies were created in 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson, who said at the time: “it is necessary and
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The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship is hosting a conference March 31-April 1 on Entrepreneurial Education. Speakers T. K. Coleman (Praxis) María Marty (Fundación para la Responsabilidad Intelectual) Nicholas Capaldi (Loyola University New Orleans) Kevin Currie-Knight (East Carolina University) Marsha Familaro Enright (The Great Connections Seminars) Terry Noel (Illinois State University) Jed Hopkins (Edgewood College)
Entrepreneurial Education conference — next week Read More »
Universities are political places, but there’s good politics and bad. First point: The protesting students are neither “snowflakes” who can’t take the heat nor “delicate flowers” whose feelings have been bruised. University students have seen movie violence, broken up with boyfriends and girlfriends, read ugly things on the internet, viewed porn clips, lost grandparents, and
Campus Power Politics – It’s Calculated Strategy [Good Life series] Read More »
Olympe de Gouges’s first-wave feminism and her The Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791). The first two items: “1. Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on common utility. 2. The purpose of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible
Olympe de Gouges’s 1791 declaration of women’s rights Read More »