A good example in The Wall Street Journal, reporting on a study published in Lancet: Climate Change Saves More Lives Than You’d ThinkEight times as many people die from cold as heat, and the fix for both is access to cheap fuel.
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Experienced consultant John Davis on how to have productive discussions. A snippet: * Stick to the subject.* Don’t interrupt.* One person talking at a time.* No ad hominem.* No name calling.* Eliminate gutter talk* Avoid logical fallacies.* Know the underlying premises of your positions.* Identify the underlying premises of the others’ positions.* Argue from basic
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On the priority of character: “Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the State” (Apology, 30b). On the dangers of democracy: “No man on earth who conscientiously opposes you or any other organized democracy, and flatly prevents a great many wrongs and illegalities
In class: Socrates in Plato’s *Apology* Read More »
Related: My contrasting episodes on Karl Marx and Ayn Rand. In the *Philosophers, Explained* series. Marx on abolishing private property: Rand on individual rights:
Is socialism closer to monarchy than capitalism is? Read More »
My “Educating for Entrepreneurship” has been published in Polish in the education journal Przegląd Pedagogiczny. The Polish title is “Edukacja dla przedsiębiorczości.” Here is the original working paper in English at my site and/or in PDF format. And here’s a PDF of the Polish translation. Related: My Philosophy of Education video course lectures online:
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From seven years ago. Households vary in size, so take that into account when interpreting. Also: Median income for Jamaican-American households was about $58K. For Nigerian-American households, it was about $65K. Here’s another data-aggregating page.
US income by ethnicity and race: bar-chart data Read More »
Reading up on the crypto-FTX bankruptcy and scandal. Four items of interest: The New York Times after-the-fact: “How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Collapsed.“ Before the scandal broke: “Stanford Law Profs’ Son Is A ‘Vegan Crypto Billionaire.’“ On of those Stanford law professors, Barbara Fried, wrote “Beyond Blame”, in which she argued that no one is
Should we blame FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried for anything? Read More »
Background: Here’s a good summary of the Magness/Makovi paper on the influence of politics on Marx’s reputation. Aside from the cheap-shot responses by many of those outraged by the paper, there’s an intriguing philosophical inversion at work among the Outraged. Marx himself argued that the world develops with “iron necessity” in a strict causal priority:
The Outraged versus Magness and Makovi: Un-Marxist Marxists Read More »