I am a supporter of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the nation’s leading institution devoted to fighting for intellectual freedom on college campuses. My friend and intellectual colleague, David Ross, has written an excellent statement [pdf] explaining why he supports FIRE. Dr. Ross is a mathematics professor and so is very sharp as […]
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Links to my syllabi, readings, PowerPoints, video lectures, and other supporting materials. Jump to: Biomedical Ethics (PHIL 256) * Business and Economic Ethics (PHIL 325) * Philosophy of Science (PHIL 330) Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL 103) * Modern Intellectual History (HIST 103) * Contemporary European Philosophy (PHIL 313) * Philosophy of Art (PHIL 349) *
10/30 A site lovingly devoted to Brett Holverstott.) And Michael Newberry has a new series of plein air grade inflation epidemic in higher education. 10/27 On BBC’s website, Melvyn Bragg has a series of discussions with guest experts about comparing the two Koreas and links to the peripatetic Don Parrish’s here.) 10/23 Law professor David
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6/30 Poking fun at the enemy. I’m late to the game of Penn & Teller’s series of short videos. Here are three: WalMart critics, a (painfully hilarious) look at Naomi Wolf’s shockingly bad Shock Doctrine. 6/29 Fascinating developments in slows innovation in energy efficiency. 6/28 Reena Kapoor has this banned “brainstorming”. I had no idea
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4/30 In the name of entrepreneurship and innovation, let’s create another bureaucratic, rent-seeking government agency? Jeff Cornwall says Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, and Will Rogers. 4/29 Psychological limits and updating the “crow-epistemology” numbers: extraordinarily high incarceration rates and, given that much of it is a consequence of our wrong-headed war on drugs, links to this
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2/29 Ibn Warraq on wealth or control? Professor Noam Wasserman, of the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School, looks at some of the difficult choices entrepreneurs make. (Thanks to Jeff for the link.) 2/26 A college professor is Ban Legos!! One of those articles that reads like a spoof, but isn’t. (Thanks to Charles
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11/30 Why were Enron’s Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling convicted? Professor Larry Ribstein argues that Is there a rational basis for determinism? And in Spiked, Stuart Derbyshire surveys the state of brain science and free will and argues that women in India. (Thanks to Virginia for the link.) Prospect magazine has this fascinating overview (statist
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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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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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12/31 “Somalia, Darfur, Iraq, Afghanistan. Evidence that we live in a world of war and destruction is everywhere. And yet, it is not so.” journalistic bias at the NYT. Which raises the question: What will they say when Castro dies? 12/30 Alone but not lonely: Creativity and European and American pharmaceutical development. Richard Epstein argues
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