When I was young, I believed in freedom and self-responsibility. Over the years, my professional colleagues have insisted that attitude is not in keeping with state-of-the-art public policy. They have taught me that leadership requires the use of any and all legislative tools to solve society’s problems. Bowing to their collective wisdom, here is my […]
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This summer I will be teaching an MBA business ethics course at Loyola’s beautiful downtown Chicago Water Tower location. My (updated) syllabus and schedule are available here at my Courses page. Bragging rights for Loyola: Its business ethics program ranked tops by BusinessWeek.
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One question on the final exam for my Philosophy of Art course asked students to identify the best or worst theorist of art we studied this semester. We devoted significant time to five major philosophers — Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, and Rand — and discussed a few others along the way more briefly. In deciding
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Entrepreneurial Research Science My full interview with physicist R. Paul Drake is now posted at the the CEE site. I met with Dr. Drake in Michigan to discuss the realities of professional science — multi-tasking, grant-writing, travel, and learning from failure — the adequacies and inadequacies of American science education, and the likely future of
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One of the great publishing events in all of history was the French Encyclopédie of the eighteenth century, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond D’Alembert. It was a massive project: many authors, 71,818 articles and 3,129 illustrations, published in 28 volumes over 25 years. During my working visit to Guatemala, Luis Figueroa took
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Jumping into the debate about “bleeding-heart libertarianism” (Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi, Bryan Caplan and again, David Friedman, David Henderson, and others), which seeks to integrate libertarianism with social justice. “Social justice” is one of those vaguely-specified, usually suspect phrases, defined by one defender of BHL as the position that “the moral justification of our
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On my trip home from Brazil, I had a lengthy layover in Panama, made enjoyable by two fun and smart young people who took me to the canal (awesome) and to lunch at a Panamanian fusion restaurant. Tasty — I’d never had fried plantain before. I was struck by Panama City’s skyline — it’s experiencing
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Three of my items are now in the top ten on postmodernism at Amazon Kindle: * The first edition of Explaining Postmodernism has dropped from first to second. * The expanded edition has dropped from fifth to seventh. Too sad. * But my essay on Free Speech and Postmodernism is now up to tenth. (The
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