In the following two-part interview, I talk with Mr. Sandefur about the contrasting views of the Progressives and the Founding Fathers on liberty and human rights, how the Progressive agenda has led to an increase in political entrepreneurship, and philosophy’s role in stimulating positive changes in our political system.
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I have been fortunate to interview several of CEE’s expert guest speakers over the past year.
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The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship has published its eighth issue of Kaizen [pdf], focusing on the theme of Education and Entrepreneurship. It features my interview with Steve Mariotti, founder of the excellent Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), an organization dedicated to providing entrepreneurship education to low-income youths. Also featured are guest speakers David Mayer,
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I received an email from the Social Science Research Network — the huge online database of scholarly journal essays in economics, law, management, and related fields — with the delightful subject line: “Your Paper Makes SSRN Top Ten List.” The paper is my “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf], which was published in
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Since its 2006 publication, my 2:45-hour documentary on Nietzsche and the Nazis has been available from Amazon, Netflix, and other venues. Beginning this summer, Netflix has made the documentary available via video-stream, which has led to a healthy uptick in feedback — including gratifying praise, interesting new angles, thoughtful disagreement — and a smattering of
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Check out this documentary to be released this fall: Ten9Eight. Directed by Mary Mazzio, it is about a dozen instant-classic American success stories — and entrepreneurship’s power over poverty and adversity. In an upcoming issue of Kaizen I interview Steve Mariotti, founder and CEO of the impressive Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship. Several of the young
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Congratulations to Virginia Murr (Rockford College class of 2006) for her First-Prize-winning essay in the FreedomWorks entrepreneur essay contest. Virginia was in the college’s rigorous honors program and a philosophy major, and since graduating she is developing her own writing career. Even better, especially for me, is the theme of her winning essay: Dr. Stephen
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. . I am re-reading Judy Estrin’s Closing the Innovation Gap, in preparation for an interview I will be doing with her for Kaizen. Estrin is a successful Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and is currently on the board of directors of FedEx and Disney. She is worried about the U.S.’s culture of innovation, believing it
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