7/30 The politics of education: Lisa Snell of the Reason Foundation’s web log: educational “looping”, in which a teacher stays with a group of students for two years. And check out this a recent challenge in the Canadian Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Mark Steyn is of Fred Smith, founder of FedEx. 7/27 In Reason: Melinda Ammann […]

6/30 David V. Cohn’s immediately before and after Tiananmen Square. And check out this inspiring poster, Stuart Mark Feldman’s The Future in Our Hands. And here are Brett Holverstott’s fine Yahoo News, George Will, Tyler Cowen, and a number of posts by The Castle Coalition, a project of build a socially-useful hotel on Justice Souter’s

5/30 Apostate from Islam: Azam Kamguian argues that we need to Altruism and Capitalism and 2005 Index of Leading Environmental Indicators. And check out the in defense of sex. In the heat of the moment, however, you will want to have your lawyer present to help you distinguish a lack of reasonable foreseeability from wanton

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:

3/31 At PointofLaw.com, a valuable collection of to-the-point columns on Robert Bradley, Jr. at the Institute for Energy Research and one from Jimmy Wales, the founder of the intriguing The Atlasphere.) 3/28 Non-bleeding-heart libertarian Bryan Caplan suggests conditional welfare for the poor: Marginal Revolution.) 3/26 A debate on free speech by law professors muzzle professors

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

1/31 Update: Tim Blair has an excellent set of photo-essay on the Iraq election. And The Female in Aristotle’s Biology. And required reading for students of Aristotle’s politics is Fred Miller’s classic study, Does it matter which college you go to – or that you go to college? And at 2 Blowhards: the FDA’s drug-approval

12/31 Let’s end the year on a happy note. Law professor Glenn Reynolds argues that good news indicators from 2004. (Via Instapundit.com.) 12/30 The Lisbon earthquake of 1755 may have killed 70,000 people, and Voltaire and Rousseau debated its implications for the theodicy problem. Rob Vischer raises the issue again in poignant form, since Why