5/30 Apostate from Islam: Azam Kamguian argues that we need to export the Enlightenment to the East.
5/24 Two important essays by philosopher David Kelley on morality and freedom: Altruism and Capitalism and Two Strains of Altruism. (Thanks to Peter for the reminder.)
5/23 The Pacific Research Center has released its 2005 Index of Leading Environmental Indicators. And check out the Kyoto Count Up at JunkScience.com.
5/21 It’s the height of spring, and David Mayer writes 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 negligence: Ouch. (Via Overlawyered.com.)
5/20 For clear thinkers and logic geeks alike: The Adam Smith Institute has a useful round-up and discussion of common logical fallacies.
5/19 At Butterflies and Wheels, a fun quiz to test your moral principles in some, umm, odd situations. (Via Marginal Revolution.)
5/18 At the Intersection of Anthropology and Culture has a fine list of readings:
Be it resolved: that commercial culture is compromised culture. I’m with Tyler Cowen on this one.
5/17 How much tsunami aid has actually been delivered and put to use? Mark Steyn is keeping track. Update: Peter Cresswell has further thoughts.
5/16 Get rid of tenure for college professors? Victor Davis Hanson has a point. (Thanks to Bob H. for the link. Note: Requires login at the Chicago Tribune site.)
5/14 Andy Borowitz suggests ten new hoaxes to pull for fun and entertainment in contemporary culture. (Via A&L Daily.)
5/13 Walter Williams on the increasing number of millionaires in America.
5/12 Why don’t people have more sex? It’s all about search costs and marginal utilities. With sweet talk like that, perhaps we now know why economists don’t have more sex. Will Wilkinson probes further. And worth revisiting is this summary of data on sex, education, marriage, money, and happiness.
5/11 We’ve seen public education’s results. We’ve seen public housing’s results. How about public medicine? The U.A.W. uses General Motors to push toward socialized medicine. And the Econoclast reports an increase in medical tourism by Canadians, given Canada’s lengthy waiting lists for many surgical procedures. As P. J. O’Rourke put it pithily, “If you think health care is expensive now, just wait until it’s free.” Update: Alex Tabarrok links to a report on outsourcing of medical experts from the U.S. to India and Thailand.
5/10 Johan Norberg points out that Arabs generally do very well educationally and financially—outside Arab countries, and draws the conclusion that in Arab countries Islam is not to blame, bad politics is.
5/9 In Forbes: the ten laws of business success in the modern world. I wonder why “Always use PowerPoint” is not on the list. Which leads to the question: What if Abraham Lincoln had delivered his Gettysburg Address with PowerPoint?
5/7 The Academy of Achievement: Profiles of contemporaries who have done extraordinary things in business, art, the sciences, sports, and other endeavors.
5/6 In The Wall Street Journal, the excellent Thomas Sowell
summarizes the theme of his latest book on race and culture, Black Rednecks and White Liberals.
5/5 Artist Michael Newberry’s latest
Studio Update, including an amazing pencil study for his work-in-progress, Kimberly. Also check out his latest available works at RomanticRealism.net.
5/4 In Reason, Steven Vincent on archaeology, incentives, and property rights. (Via Arts & Letters Daily.) And for keeping up with the excavations at Troy, here is
the website for Project Troia.
5/3 Genetically-modified foods have been around for ten years. Peter Cresswell has some thoughts on their anniversary and some good, related links. And worth reading again is ABetterEarth.org’s profile of the great Norman Borlaug.
5/2 Catallarchy: A lively and provocative economics group blog.