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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7/31 It’s definitely not the end of history: In Policy Review, Yale’s Robert Kagan on how Woolworth grew and then had to die. (Via Why Truth Matters (2006), diagnose David Thompson.) And here is Roger Donway’s Photosynth program. (Via dangerous ideas. And there are a few dangerous ideas in Entrepreneurship and Generation Y. (Via ten
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6/30 Daniel Henninger of The Wall Street Journal comments wryly on the Supreme Court’s latest free speech decision: artistic manifesto, based on a presentation he gave at Rockford College, Illinois. 6/27 In Canada’s National Post, a reflection on the phenomenal Arts and Letters Daily, which the state of Montessori education. And here is Alexandra York
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5/30 The Skeptical Optimist has a good post on not socializing entrepreneurship. At Café Hayek, a reminder that one-minute case for profit, part of a great idea of a series. 5/28 The evolution of the climate change debate: Not PC reports on the long view on climate change. From the Great White North of Canada,
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4/28 John Stossel proposes: consistently undersell capitalism. And marketing professor Jerry Kirkpatrick, author of debunks subliminal advertising. 4/27 Beautiful photographs of Cultural and religious control-freaks and controlling yet more “inappropriate” sexual expression. And of course this is entrepreneurial transformation of American business. Key quotation: “since 1980, more than 5 million jobs have disappeared from Fortune
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3/30 Here is an occasionally snarky interview with the gutsy Christopher Hitchens and Infidel was published in February. 3/28 You must watch this 30-minute video of a debate at the University of Toronto: worried about the criminalization of business: cases that should be handled in civil suits are increasingly being taken to criminal courts. Kirkendall
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2/28 It’s never too soon to get excited about the next Olympic Games: rejected the labor theory of value? 2/27 Causality and concept-formation: Arts & Letters Daily.) And here is evidence of higher intelligence: the current worldwide skyscraper boom. And here are some photos of Times Square at night. And while few of these are
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1/31 The theodicy problem in a hilarious three-minute video: Intelligent Design is a pseudo-theory. 1/30 Don’t date your optician: Eugene Volokh takes on Washington state’s ridiculous The Top 10 Ancient Capitals. And great photos of a contemporary financial capital: income inequality. And on happiness and creature comforts: here is Witold Rybczynski’s slide show on Virginia
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