An observation by Bertrand de Jouvenel on begrudging others’ riches. The question he takes up is this: Why are the great incomes of movie stars and singers not routinely attacked while the great incomes of CEOs and entrepreneurs are? “The film star or the crooner is not grudged the income that is grudged to the […]
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See this movie. Owl and the Sparrow, set in the new Vietnam, is about Thuy, a 10-year old girl. Her parents have died, so she is being raised by her harsh uncle and working in his factory. One day, after she makes a minor mistake, her uncle unloads on her, telling her she is deficient,
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Marty stars Ernest Borgnine, and it won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Picture along with three other Oscars, so I figured I should watch it. My five-sentence summary: Marty’s gonna run a fine butcher shop some day.Lonely Marty finally meets a girl who’s a “dog” just like he is.Marty’s cousin and his wife get
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I watched Zorba the Greek (1965), which I hadn’t seen since my teen years. My five-sentence summary: I’m incompetent and repressed. You’re incompetent and outgoing.We’re surrounded by viciously ignorant villagers.But that’s okay! Let’s dance! Related: 1955 movie Marty.
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My line-up for the year: December-January: Poland. Visiting professor at Kasimir the Great University. Eleven lectures on entrepreneurial education. Lecture in Gdansk at World War II Museum on Dugin’s neo-fascism. February: Sweden. Ax:Son Foundation. Talk on “Woke and Postmodernism,” for forthcoming 2024 volume. February: Chicago, Illinois. Reliance College talk on transforming education entrepreneurially. March: Logan,
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A fun anecdote from the history of medicine. (Fun in hindsight, though not necessarily fun for those who lived through the medical history.) The late-medieval Iatrochemists believed that progress could be made by uniting medicine with alchemy. Their intellectual leader was Paracelsus (1493-1541), a Swiss physician whose goal was to reform medical chemistry by rejecting
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Why accurate translation and skilled editing are important: Bloodletting was a common practice in medieval medicine and did not die out until the nineteenth century. The practice was encouraged by the belief that the excellent Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen practiced it. Most phelobotomists followed the Persian genius Avicenna‘s editions of the Greek texts, which
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An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is an avant-garde figurative painter, writer, and teacher promoting evolutionary flourishing through his work. He does this through advances in color theory, body language, symbolism, and composition. Michael is the author of two books released in 2021: Evolution Through Art and Newberry
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