Two strong stories. Read to the end for the kicker. Story One: Years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago. Capone was notorious for enmeshing the Windy City in everything from bootlegged booze and prostitution to murder. Capone had a lawyer nicknamed “Easy Eddie.” Eddie was very good — his skill at legal maneuvering kept Big […]

My answers to the question: No, No, and Yes. 10-minute talk at the Forum da Liberdade in Brazil, April 2022. My co-discussants were The Spectator‘s Melissa Chen and political science professor João Pereira Coutinho. Excerpts from my remarks start at the 6-minute mark in this video: Related: My talk on the roots of the culture

Consider these two contrasting principles of education: Bildung is experiencing and acting in the world freely and in personal way through a process of self-education without formal schooling. Typical schooling: acting in a controlled and impersonal environment in a directed-by-others process. Bildung was developed most in 19th-century Germany, most significantly by Wilhelm von Humboldt. It

My Liberalism: Pro and Con has been translated into Spanish by Fermin Elizalde. We will be serially publishing here each part prior to the publication of the book as a whole. Find the English version here: Amazon. From the blurb for the English edition: In this primer, we take up the best arguments for and

“Ayn Rand”The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2001 I wrote the article on novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand for The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. My entry focuses on her ethical philosophy. The articles are periodically reviewed by encyclopedia’s editors and authors, and here is the latest.