David Thompson is a critic and commentator with strong interests in pop culture and postmodernism. His interview with me based on my book Explaining Postmodernism is now posted at his site. Previous interviews I’ve done on postmodernism’s themes and roots were published in Navigator and New Individualist magazines. The following scholarly reviews of the book […]
“Postmodernism Unpeeled” discussion with David Thompson Read More »
Putting into one flowchart what I have learned from Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, and Gordon Tullock. The flowchart is in spreadsheet format: the short version and the long version in Excel 2007 or in Excel 97-2003. Update: DJ Dates has a cool, scalable Google maps version
Pathologies of the mixed economy (or, How we got into this frackin’ mess) Read More »
2/6 Some slipperiness in using “altruism” here (“benevolence” is more accurate for most of the cases she mentions), but Sally Satel’s heart and mind are in the right place about our semi-functional organ-donation system and When Keynesianism Isn’t Moral. 2/5 Following the InstaPundit’s lead: In this era of St. Anthony, patron saint of pigs and
Worth Reading for February 2009 Read More »
1/31 Thomas Sowell on horses and buggies and Ford Has Worst Year Ever But Won’t Ask for Aid. Almost makes me want to go out and buy a Ford. (Thanks to Bob M. for the link.) And it surprises me to say, “the never-ending attempt to reconcile science and religion, and why it is doomed
Worth Reading for January 2009 Read More »
My ten-minute interview at CEE with Dr. Emily Chamlee-Wright on her research on entrepreneurship and the non-profit sector in post-Katrina New Orleans. More interviews with CEE’s guest speakers are available here.
Interview: Emily Chamlee-Wright on post-Katrina New Orleans Read More »
12/28 When absurdist humor is almost real: beautiful, beautiful libraries from around the world. 12/19 Jeff Jacoby on the was Hitler “abnormal”, or was he a person with normal capacities who chose an evil path? And speaking of evil: a report on the ifeminists.) 12/15 A fine pair of quotations from Robert Heinlein and Thomas
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11/30 Free flip flops for drunks: Since your mom can’t always go barhopping with you, cystic fibrosis is just too white. (Via paying for organ donors. 11/27 Many grains of truth here: Donald Frazell’s What exactly is art? (Thanks to Bob H. for the link.) 11/26 John Allison’s talk to the Moore School of Business
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10/30 A site lovingly devoted to Brett Holverstott.) And Michael Newberry has a new series of plein air grade inflation epidemic in higher education. 10/27 On BBC’s website, Melvyn Bragg has a series of discussions with guest experts about comparing the two Koreas and links to the peripatetic Don Parrish’s here.) 10/23 Law professor David
Worth Reading for October 2008 Read More »