[In 1967 (50 years ago this year), a commissioned sculpture by Pablo Picasso was unveiled in Chicago. Critic Alan G. Artner has a journalistic account of the unveiling and the piece’s subsequent legal-political saga. But the following excerpt from the great Mike Royko’s account of the crowd’s reaction captures the day’s significance best.] ON THE […]
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Without comment, I offer this excerpt from the Gospel of Thomas (114): Simon Peter said to Jesus, “Make Mary leave us, for females don’t deserve life.” Jesus said, “Look, I will guide her to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself
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I participated in a seminar on the Jones Act of 1920, with good presentations by Phil Magness, Woan Foong Wong, Ken Schoolland, Keli’i Akina, and others. The Jones Act requires that any cargo carried between two US ports be (a) carried only on US-built ships or barges that are (b) mostly manned by US citizens, and
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[Here is a transcript of our eleven-minute video interview.] Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship Interview with Professor Al Gini on Leadership Hicks: I’m Stephen Hicks of CEE. Today we have with us Professor Al Gini from Loyola University Chicago, where he is chair of the management department and where he teaches business ethics. He is also
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On Tuesday, April 11, 2017, 2:30 – 3:45 pm, I’ll be speaking at APEE on Liberty and Equality in Political Economy: From Locke and Rousseau to the Present. Other participants in the session will be Peter Boettke, Nick Capaldi, Gordon Lloyd, and Alexei Marcoux.
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About the following list of the top ten oil companies in the world, ask two questions: How many are government-owned and how many privately owned? and Of the privately owned, how many are highly regulated and how many operate in free markets? 1 Saudi Aramco 478.00 (evenue in year 2015) 2 Sinopec 455.499 3 China
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I’ll be part of an APEE panel on [2.G.8] Business Ethics Education on Monday, April 10, 2017, from 3:50 – 5:05 pm. Matthew Brown (University of Illinois-Springfield) will be the moderator and the other panelists will be Rajshree Agarwal (University of Maryland, College Park), María Marty (Fundación para la Responsabilidad Intelectual). John A. Parnell (The
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When I immigrated to the United States, the experience was not quite a nightmare but more like a series of bad dreams. I was from friendly Canada. I had a Ph.D. and a job offer from an American university. Yet the process—over several years—was a series of frustrations and indignities as I filled out dozens
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In a session organized by Peter Calcagno (College of Charleston) on the theme of Philosophy of Freedom (APEE Session 2.F.7, Monday, April 10, 2017, 2:30-3:45 pm), I’ll be speaking on the theme of “What Does It Mean to Educate for Freedom?” In part, my talk will draw on my “What Entrepreneurship Can Teach Us All About Life” article
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I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert … near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lips, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped
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