Edward Snider is CEO of Comcast-Spectacor, a company that owns the Philadelphia Flyers and Philadelphia 76ers basketball team, the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia where the teams play, and several other sports-related businesses. For his many accomplishments in his hockey career, Snider was elected to the US Hockey Hall of Fame this month. My Kaizen interview […]
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I was interviewed by Jeanne Hoffman for Kosmos Online about my work in starting the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. The theme of the podcast is academic entrepreneurship and what goes into starting a new center or institute. Kosmos is a project of IHS for classical liberal academics.
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In a recent Huffington Post piece entitled “Teaching Capitalism in the Last Days of the USSR,” Steve Mariotti discusses his experience teaching business and capitalism to young people during the final days of the Soviet Union. Fascinating. I interviewed Mariotti for Kaizen on his excellent Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). Before founding NFTE, Mariotti was
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The new semester begins next week, so it’s time to rev up the posting. To mark the transition, here is an image from my restful summer vacation.
Farewell to summer 2011 Read More »
Alma Causevic has translated the first chapter of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The Kindle version of the expanded edition came out last month and the hardcover will be out later this month.
Serbo-Croatian translation of Chapter One of Explaining Postmodernism Read More »
Courtesy of: OnlineSchools.com
Neat graphic: evolution of teaching technologies Read More »
Driving home today along a country road, I witnessed a rare event: A vulture playing chicken with a falcon over a turkey carcass. The vulture was a real vulture working a real turkey carcass near the edge of the road, stopping only to face down an oncoming car, which turned out to be an older
The question matters because many smart libertarians and conservatives, Bryan Caplan included, are wondering whether the two groups can overcome their differences, either for short-term coalitions on particular issues and elections or to create a longer-term movement. My view is that the philosophical differences between the two militate against long-term compatibility, though there are prospects
Do conservatives value economic liberty? Read More »