Earlier this week I gave a talk in Indianapolis at the excellent Liberty Fund on whether free-market capitalism is good or bad for art. The question matters in today’s intellectual context because thinkers on both left and right argue regularly that art suffers under free market systems. Traditional conservatives such as Robert Bork and neo-conservatives […]
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At the third 2010 International Conference, “The Austrian School of Economics in the 21st Century,” held in 2010 in Rosario, Argentina, I gave a keynote lecture entitled “Austrians, Objectivists, and the Unrequited Love of Philosophy for Economics.” The conference was co-sponsored by the Bases Foundation, the Faculty of Economics of the Pontifical Catholic University of
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I’m giving a talk tomorrow at the 10th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility. My title is “Entrepreneurship and CSR,” CSR being the dominant framework for business ethics for the last half century or so. CSR is a very flexible vessel into which theoreticians have poured a variety of ethical views, but the major versions
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First, the government monopoly: CNN Money reports that the “U.S. Postal Service reports $2.2 billion loss” in the first quarter of 2011 and expects to lose lots more. Second, two private market companies: Reuters reports that United Parcel Service’s “profit tops estimates” but, sadly, that FedEx’s profits “fell 3 percent to $231 million.” One question
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For my Introduction to Philosophy course, a question on the final exam [pdf] was: “Religion was a theme for all of our authors this semester: * Socrates was put on trial and found guilty of impiety; * Galileo was silenced despite arguing for a compromise between science and religion; * Descartes tried to prove with
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For my Introduction to Philosophy course, a question on the final exam [pdf] was: In your judgment, what is the most dangerous book we read this semester? First give a clear and sympathetic presentation of the book’s most important themes; second, state your criterion/criteria of dangerousness; finally, explain why you think the book is dangerous.
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[Update: I received a note of apology from the author and the post has been retracted. Thank you to everyone who acted on my behalf to correct the error.] What can I say? According to Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government website, Professor Stephen Hicks of Rockford College is a Marxist devoted to educating cadres of revolutionaries.
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Update: The movie is now playing in Janesville but not Rockford. So we are heading up to Janesville’s Wildwood theatre for the 7:10 p.m. showing of Saturday, May 7. Here is a Google map. Free movie outing this weekend for Rockford College students. See the new Atlas Shrugged movie this weekend. Cost to students: Free.
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