Like many of you, I am engaged with thinking through the healthcare proposals and debates and am occasionally frustrated with the scattered focus and the talking past the other guy’s position. So, as a start, I propose a clarification of the questions involved. As I see it, the overall healthcare discussion is a four-dimensional debate: […]
The four healthcare debates Read More »
. . I haven’t read Anne Heller’s book, but Timothy Sandefur’s review makes me want to. (Thanks to Bob H. for the link.) . . .
Sandefur reviews Anne Heller on Ayn Rand Read More »
Here is my second contribution to the contest. Edging out John Stuart Mill’s 161-word effort is the following from Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: “And then nothing can protect us against a complete falling away from our Ideas of duty, or can preserve in the soul a grounded reverence for its law,
Philosophy’s longest sentences, Part 2 Read More »
I hereby announce a contest: What is the longest sentence ever written by a philosopher? The kind of sentence that, as you are reading it through — trying to hold the context and decipher the meaning — flows majestically onwards, or meanders along deceptively, with occasional side streams (and parenthetical remarks), until your cerebrum is
Philosophy’s longest sentences 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 »
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 »