5/31 Two recent takes on contemporary intellectual culture: In the Chronicle, Michael Kimmel reviews several trendy novels in the “comic cartoon [is] the form best suited to illuminate our age”: “To speak truthfully and insightfully today you must have a sense of the absurdity of human life and endeavour. Past attempts to construct grand and […]
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4/29 Now I understand women: equality is good for your sex life. 4/28 Corporate non-ethics from the inside: where, oh where, would GM be without the UAW? George Reisman explains. 4/27 Following the controversy surrounding David Horowitz’s new book? Here are Amazon’s page for EclectEcon, and Philosopher Stone and Anja Hartleb at The Elements of
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3/31 Being a Brief Guide to Religious Denominations in America: A Baptist is a man who got saved. A Methodist is a Baptist who got shoes. A Congregationalist is a Methodist who moved to town. A Presbyterian is a Congregationalist who got rich. An Episcopalian is a Presbyterian who ran for public office. (Author unknown.)
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2/28 At the CEE, a profile socialized medicine is deadly. 2/27 The average American now has six weeks more leisure time per year compared to 1965. the connections between money and happiness. 2/24 Peter Beinart explains Gerald Baker weighs in heavily on the Summers affair. 2/23 At Scientific American, an extended review of voluntary military
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1/31 Well worth browsing: peripheral artists. 1/30 Frederick Douglass: “Everybody has asked the question . . . ‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples
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12/31 Year 2005 round-ups: a one-billion-users mark; Roger Ebert’s top physics stories of the year. 12/30 Fruits of the Enlightenment: Edward Hudgins remembers philosophy’s contribution to the wealth of nations: “Capital largely is a process of peaceful cooperation; a division of labor ever-deepened by market signals that contain more information than noise; an openness to
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11/30 philosophy-related products as well. 11/29 Read 2005 Libertarian Alliance Conference in London are now online. 11/26 Orangutan pee collector? Popular Science has Geek Press.) And you’ve probably been wondering: Human Development Trends 2005. 11/24 The morality of Thanksgiving: worth reading again are Roger Donway on celebrate Thanksgiving. And Alex Tabarrok Mexican avocados and Chinese
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10/31 So you’ve always wanted to learn witchcraft. Now the efficiency of decentralized markets. (Not that I’m envious or anything.) And on the enormous value of free, decentralized trade when compared to centralized tariffs and controls, Johan Norberg cites encourage personal responsibility? Overlawyered’s archive of personal irresponsibility lawsuits. 10/27 Alex Tabarrok on the secret history
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