1/31 A good post from Robert Bruner, Dean of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. A key quotation: “Artists in business are visionaries, inventors, entrepreneurs, and general managers, people who create something larger out of the assembly of resources, 2+2=5. They are quick learners; they recognize problems and opportunities ahead of the crowd; they shape large […]
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12/19 Merry Christmas!! There, I’ve said it. Lester Hunt wonders about The Ten Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time. (Via classic advice on how to survive the holiday party season.) 12/18 Fruits of the Enlightenment: a fascinating New Yorker piece on from the UK to Philippines for a kidney transplant. A related story on
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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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10/31 John Ellis’s timeless excerpt on how Western civilization’s unique trait of self-reflective criticism regularly becomes perverted to cultural self-hatred. 10/30 Photos of Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism. (Thanks to Irfan.) Warraq is also the author of Whose genocide will it be? And at Salon.com, Steve Paulson looks at All parents
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9/30 At Entrepreneur.com, ten businesses that likely differences between male and female entrepreneurs? 9/29 In a Swedish Institute for Social Research working paper, economists Daniel Klein and Charlotta Stern wonder The Volokh Conspiracy.) To help with that intellectual deficit, here is a great list of free George Reisman’s The Government Against the Economy when I
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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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