Over the years I’ve enjoyed and learned from many of Carlin Romano’s articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education. He can do good philosophical reporting. So I picked up America the Philosophical, and I was disappointed. Romano’s thesis is that the United States is a nation of vigorous philosophical activity and — contrary to the […]
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Subject: Emanation of Zarathustra… Dear Professor Hicks, I’ve noted in your “Overman” piece: “Nietzsche gives a name to his anticipated overman: He calls him Zarathustra, and he names his greatest literary and philosophical work in his honor. “Zarathustra will be the creative tyrant. Having mastered himself and others, he will exuberantly and energetically command and
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Summer vacation is over, and the new academic year beckons. A picture from the lazy days. Course syllabi and regular posting coming soon. When I was a kid growing up in Canada, the school year began early in September, right after Labor Day, which seems more civilized to me. Interesting that for as long as
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A question for those who know the great Ludwig von Mises’s work better than I. Are the following two statements, both from Liberalism, consistent with each other? “I am not an ‘enemy of the state’ any more than I can be called an enemy of sulphuric acid because I am of the opinion that, useful
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Two economists channel Miss Manners and Robert’s Rules of Order — or why good time-management manners have practical value. Mike Munger on lateness and punctuality. (I need to get me a terrifying assistant.) And Alex Tabarrok on the economics of punctuality.
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As the wags say, you can’t make this stuff up. The Bolivian Minister of External Affairs has decided, for good astrological reasons, to banish the Coca-Cola company from Bolivia. “David Choquehuanca, the minister in question, explained that Coca-Cola will be expelled from Bolivia on the same day that the Mayan calendar enters a new cycle
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Following up on a series of posts about Michelangelo, Beethoven, and Liszt. From Frederic V. Grunfeld’s very good Rodin: A Biography, the answer in the case of August Rodin is education and self education. Rodin was born into a French culture in which the large majority of the population was illiterate or semi-literate. The fact
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Does anyone know this flowing sculpture’s name, location, or creator? One suggestion I’ve received is that it’s from La Recoleta cemetery in Buenos Aires.
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