6/30 David V. Cohn’s founders of biomedical science web site.
6/29 Hong Zhang’s first-hand account of Beijing
immediately before and after Tiananmen Square. And check out this inspiring poster, One Man.
6/27 Michael Newberry discusses Kant’s aesthetics and reviews sculptor Stuart Mark Feldman’s The Future in Our Hands. And here are Brett Holverstott’s fine photographs of the sculpture group in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
6/25 The Supreme Court delivers strike two against liberty and property rights: first was the Raich decision and now Kelo. A round-up of news and commentary: Yahoo News, Edward Hudgins, George Will, Don Boudreaux, Tyler Cowen, and a number of posts by
Todd Zywicki and others at The Volokh Conspiracy. To fight back, check out the
The Castle Coalition, a project of
The Institute for Justice. (Thanks to Virginia and Douglas.) Update: Logan Darrow Clements wants to build a socially-useful hotel on Justice Souter’s private property.
6/24 A fine economics group web log:
Division of Labor.
6/23 Postmodernist Michel Foucault’s irresponsible infatuation with Iranian Islamism.
6/22 At Dissecting Leftism, John Ray on one of the sources of Mussolini’s fascism:
the American Progressives of the early 20th century. Also see these two fascinating Hitler and Mussolini posters.
6/20 Arnold Kling explains
why libertarians and collectivists usually talk past each other.
6/17 The New Individualist has several takes on the debate over Social Security privatization: Ed Hudgins stresses the moral themes of autonomy and independence; Frank Bubb focuses on a potential Trojan Horse of partial privatization; David Kelley offers an essentialized history of Social Security. And economist
George Reisman looks at the sorry economic story and offers a solution.
6/16 Philosopher of mathematics Rebecca Goldstein’s interview on
Kurt Gödel’s theorem and his and Einstein’s realism. Here is her new book,
Incompleteness.
6/15 King Banaian discusses a recent interview with
Milton Friedman on education and has some related links.
6/14 James D. Miller responds to those who criticize WalMart for
charging low prices and hiring unskilled workers.
6/13 Winds of Change provides a pointed overview of
the disaster that is contemporary Zimbabwe. And Cao has a justly unflattering assessment of
the U.N.’s track record in peacekeeping.
6/11 After his wife’s stroke, David Asman learns the differences between
medical care in Britain and in the USA.
6/10 InstaPunk’s wry relating of the travails of doing business in the Garden State.
6/9 Mao: sadist and mass-killer. Michael Yahuda reviews a new book by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. (Via Arts & Letters Daily.)
6/8 A round-up of reactions to the Supreme Court’s terrible Raich decision:
Citizens Against Government Waste, Radley Balko, and a variety of legal commentators on June 6 at
ScotusBlog.com.
Orin Kerr offers a small comfort.
Meanwhile, my native country, Canada, has legalized
medical marijuana.
6/7 Outstanding engineering: Jeff Perren tells the dramatic story of
the building of the new Hong Kong airport. Worth reading again is engineering professor Gordon Stubley’s classic case studies of integrity – one failure causing the Challenger disaster, and one success preserving the Citibank building in Manhattan. And here are some fun statistics about
the world’s 20 busiest airports.
6/6 Cato’s Alan Reynolds has some
straight thinking about income inequality. And Will Wilkinson does not care much about
all the fuss about income mobility.
6/4 Peter Berkowitz reviews Donald Downs’s important new book on free speech on campus.
6/3 Who were the greatest killers of the twentieth century? Hitler? Stalin? Mao?
Maybe not. (Thanks to Peter for the link.) And on the numbers of people killed intentionally by authoritarian governments, political scientist
R. J. Rummel has the staggering statistics.
6/2 George Ayittey of The Free Africa Foundation ponders the reasons for
Africa’s economic woes and its future prospects. And Frank Vorhies explains the lessons of colonialism and agriculture in Africa.
6/1 Business advice and connections: The Long Tail (Thanks to Joe for the link.) And: Do you have a great business idea but need some engineering or technical advice? BusinessPundit.com links to an organization that connects entrepreneurs with free technical advice. Or are you looking to outsource a job that’s part of a bigger project you’re working on? Guru.com is like eBay for services, as my friend Eric put it, letting providers bid on your job.