1/31 Update: Tim Blair has an excellent set of photo-essay on the Iraq election. And The Female in Aristotle’s Biology. And required reading for students of Aristotle’s politics is Fred Miller’s classic study, Does it matter which college you go to – or that you go to college? And at 2 Blowhards: the FDA’s drug-approval […]
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12/31 Let’s end the year on a happy note. Law professor Glenn Reynolds argues that good news indicators from 2004. (Via Instapundit.com.) 12/30 The Lisbon earthquake of 1755 may have killed 70,000 people, and Voltaire and Rousseau debated its implications for the theodicy problem. Rob Vischer raises the issue again in poignant form, since Why
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11/30 Brilliance! Eccentricity! Fudging the data! Take this job and shove it more often. (Via Anwar Shaikh’s Autobiography of an Apostate. (Thanks to Karen for the link.) 11/25 The morality of Thanksgiving: Editor Roger Donway on celebrate Thanksgiving. 11/24 Philosopher Tibor Machan on books on art and art history. 11/22 How to improve educational performance?
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10/30 Another minority group that needs protection: This Hallowe’en let’s all try to a brief history of Samhain, commonly known as Hallowe’en. 10/29 Liberty magazine’s four perspectives on voting for president: Lessons from the Iraq War: Reconciling Liberty and Security. 10/27 I am reading Michelangelo’s art, life, and historical context. 10/26 Walter Olson and the
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Virginia Murr on the philosopher of Islamist terrorism: “The Power of Ideas: Sayyid Qutb and Islamism” [pdf]. Her extended essay explores the Qutb’s connection with historical Islam and contemporary movements such as Al Quaeda. (This essay was first posted at StephenHicks.org on September 4, 2004.)