In the Atlas Shrugged chapter entitled “Wyatt’s Torch” (1.10), Rand has the increasingly desperate central planners pass the “Public Stability Law,” one provision of which states that “All the manufacturing establishments of the country, of any size and nature, were forbidden to move from their present locations.” In the novel’s collapsing economy, many companies are […]
Atlas Shrugged is really a documentary, datum #217 Read More »
I’ll be speaking as part of the final panel for the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour at Rock Valley College. Friday, April 15, 2011 from 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM (CT) Rock Valley State College Student Center Atrium 3301 N. Mulford Road Rockford, IL 61114 Further information.
Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour coming to Rockford Read More »
Two images, the first taken on a walk yesterday near my home in Illinois. This is the northern part of the state in early spring. The second is one of my favorite Pissarro landscapes, Chestnut Trees at Osny, painted in northern France circa 1873. That coincidence makes me happy.
Camille Pissarro in Illinois? Read More »
Count me a huge fan of Rosling’s work: See also his “200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes.”
Hans Rosling’s magic washing machine Read More »
This chart, based on a Bureau of Labor Statistics time-use survey of teenagers, presents data for four racial/cultural groupings: Asian, non-Hispanic white, Hispanic, and black. If the data are accurate, how far does the chart go towards explaining differentials across the races in grades, graduation rates, employment rates, and income levels? Also interesting is the
Homework, race, and success in life Read More »
First published in 1912 ago, Mises’s The Theory of Money and Credit makes this observation: “Gold is not an ideal basis for a monetary system. Like all human creations, the gold standard is not free from shortcomings; but in the existing circumstances there is no other way of emancipating the monetary system from the changing
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Australia’s Lorenzo Warby’s review of my Nietzsche and the Nazis. Intriguing sideways connection to Heidegger and militarism: Warby also reviews Brian Daizen Victoria’s Zen at War, “a study of how Zen Buddhism became deeply complicit in Japanese militarism,” just as Heidegger’s mystically-charged writings became complicit in German militarism. Warby there points to this piece by
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My list of the Top Ten issues the current fracas in Wisconsin has raised. 1. Is Wisconsin’s state budget deficit a problem that must be dealt with? Yes or No 2. Should changing the wages and benefits package of public school teachers be part of the solution to the deficit? Yes or No 3. Do
Checklist of Wisconsin political issues Read More »