Here’s Dr. Ann Laing, superintendant of the Racine, Wisconsin Unified School District: “The African-American families are the ones who are most prone to enroll their kids in the fly-by-night schools that cropped up after vouchers existed, and they don’t know how to make good choices for their children. They really don’t. They didn’t have parents
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Indeed: Jonathan Chait on Marxism today. Related: My video lecture on Marxism and its implications for education. My posts and publications on Marx and Marxism.
Chait: “Oh, Good, It’s 2016 and We’re Arguing About Whether Marxism Works” Read More »
The indefatiguable Matheus Pacini designed this graphic meme. Here’s his group’s Facebook page. More of my posts on Objectivism. [About the original spelling: Fortunately, Merriam-Webster has “straitjacket, noun \ˈstrāt-ˌja-kət\ variants: or less commonly straightjacket.”] “Objectivism is a discipline—not a straitjacket. It is a base camp for high mountain expeditions—not a hillock from which to look
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Stephen Hicks y María Marty en PanAm Post: Los cuatro errores del papa Francisco sobre el liberalismo. English and Portuguese versions forthcoming soon. Relacionado por María Marty: “Papa Francisco y la riqueza: ¿Integridad o hipocresía?”
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Stephen Fry was asked: If you were to meet God, what would you say? His answer: “How dare you create a world in which there is such misery?” For that he is being investigated by a government for violating blasphemy laws. In the 21st century. In Europe. On the philosophy: my introductory lecture on the
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Here’s a seven-minute podcast of me talking with the WSJ‘s Charlie Turner about my article “What Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us All About Life.” From the article: “We often think of entrepreneurs as larger-than-life characters. They take big risks. They make their own rules. They innovate and experiment, questioning things everybody else takes for granted. “It
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For weekend readers, two articles from me this week on the campus battles: “Should Politicians Force Diversity at Universities?” Published by the Berens Foundation’s The Right Insight. Excerpt on politicized universities: “Politicians must then choose either (1) to fail in their responsibilities to taxpayers by continuing to spend their money on educationally irresponsible institutions, or
Universities: Forced diversity? Nuanced judgment? Read More »
I’m enjoying Bartley Madden’s Value Creation Thinking. Madden has much real-world experience in business from his years as a managing director at Credit Suisee HOLT. He’s also read deeply into the ethics and economics literature. We all know the complaints about the business world — corporations enjoy low public trust, “capitalism” is a dirty word
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