5/31 Two recent takes on contemporary intellectual culture: In the Chronicle, Michael Kimmel reviews several trendy novels in the “comic cartoon [is] the form best suited to illuminate our age”: “To speak truthfully and insightfully today you must have a sense of the absurdity of human life and endeavour. Past attempts to construct grand and […]
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4/29 Now I understand women: equality is good for your sex life. 4/28 Corporate non-ethics from the inside: where, oh where, would GM be without the UAW? George Reisman explains. 4/27 Following the controversy surrounding David Horowitz’s new book? Here are Amazon’s page for EclectEcon, and Philosopher Stone and Anja Hartleb at The Elements of
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12/31 Year 2005 round-ups: a one-billion-users mark; Roger Ebert’s top physics stories of the year. 12/30 Fruits of the Enlightenment: Edward Hudgins remembers philosophy’s contribution to the wealth of nations: “Capital largely is a process of peaceful cooperation; a division of labor ever-deepened by market signals that contain more information than noise; an openness to
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4/30 Mathematical brilliance, hard work, and the serendipity of cultural networks combine to solve calculating the sometimes-awesome economic value of networks. (Thanks to Joe for the link.) 4/29 The web log of Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society. 4/28 Why rants on government-run health care. And for some good news: Hollywood’s anti-capitalist bias. (Note:
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2/28 Are dog owners evil? Shawn Klein on the moral status of animals. And here is philosopher Tibor Machan’s controversial it’s time to re-think nuclear power. And worth checking out is energy researcher Rob Bradley’s book: the deism and atheism of America’s Founding Fathers. (Via Arts & Letters Daily.) And for a to-the-point take on
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4/30 Philosopher Denis Dutton explains light entertainment in the arts. 4/28 Law professor Stephen Bainbridge defends the BT&T Chair for the Study of Capitalism. Note the Ayn Rand connection. (Thanks to Rob for the link.) 4/27 Philosopher John Kekes on militant Muslims waiting hopefully for Osama bin Laden to strike London. (Via Andrew Sullivan) 4/25
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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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