3/31 Don Boudreaux on good places to start. Peter Gordon puts in perspective comparing the effectiveness of private and government sector responses to Hurricane Katrina. (PDF) 3/29 Developing Intelligence points out race and psychological poverty in America. (Thanks to Karen for the link.) A report on the stagnation of the Erudito.) Exactly right, metaphysically: Wal-Mart […]
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2/29 Ibn Warraq on wealth or control? Professor Noam Wasserman, of the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School, looks at some of the difficult choices entrepreneurs make. (Thanks to Jeff for the link.) 2/26 A college professor is Ban Legos!! One of those articles that reads like a spoof, but isn’t. (Thanks to Charles
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1/31 A good post from Robert Bruner, Dean of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. A key quotation: “Artists in business are visionaries, inventors, entrepreneurs, and general managers, people who create something larger out of the assembly of resources, 2+2=5. They are quick learners; they recognize problems and opportunities ahead of the crowd; they shape large
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12/19 Merry Christmas!! There, I’ve said it. Lester Hunt wonders about The Ten Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time. (Via classic advice on how to survive the holiday party season.) 12/18 Fruits of the Enlightenment: a fascinating New Yorker piece on from the UK to Philippines for a kidney transplant. A related story on
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11/30 Why were Enron’s Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling convicted? Professor Larry Ribstein argues that Is there a rational basis for determinism? And in Spiked, Stuart Derbyshire surveys the state of brain science and free will and argues that women in India. (Thanks to Virginia for the link.) Prospect magazine has this fascinating overview (statist
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10/31 John Ellis’s timeless excerpt on how Western civilization’s unique trait of self-reflective criticism regularly becomes perverted to cultural self-hatred. 10/30 Photos of Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism. (Thanks to Irfan.) Warraq is also the author of Whose genocide will it be? And at Salon.com, Steve Paulson looks at All parents
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9/30 At Entrepreneur.com, ten businesses that likely differences between male and female entrepreneurs? 9/29 In a Swedish Institute for Social Research working paper, economists Daniel Klein and Charlotta Stern wonder The Volokh Conspiracy.) To help with that intellectual deficit, here is a great list of free George Reisman’s The Government Against the Economy when I
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8/30 A heartfelt missive from an exasperated American farmer: just how starving those starving college students are—though he also notes wryly who is paying for the party at the nation’s top party campuses. 8/28 Morgan Meis asks what art is in a 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die. (Via four galaxies colliding. The
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