I recently watched Marty for the first time. The film stars Ernest Borgnine, and it won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Picture along with three other Oscars, so I figured I should watch it. My five-sentence summary: Marty’s gonna run a fine butcher shop some day. Lonely Marty finally meets a girl who’s a […]
Jack Stack is the CEO of Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation, one of the great turnaround success stories of this generation. Stack is also the author of The Great Game of Business and A Stake in the Outcome. I recently interviewed Stack in Springfield, Missouri for a forthcoming issue (February 2011) of Kaizen. “Open-book Management” is addressed
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Simply wonderful, both in content and presentation: Related posts: Why life is 255 times better now than in 1800. Why life in America is 40 times better than in 1900. Why the nano is 750 times better than the Walkman. [Via Café Hayek.]
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Those who questioned his theology he called “pigs,” “asses,” “riffraff,” “dogs,” “idiots,” and “stinking beasts.”
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… is now available at Amazon. Here is my theme: “The liberal case for free speech won out in the modern world, but it has been under strong attack in the past generation. The attacks have come not only from traditional conservatives but increasingly from the postmodern left. In this essay, Stephen Hicks presents and
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Two student groups at Rockford College are producing a discussing of a perennially important topic: Morality without God? * Is life purposeless or meaningless without belief in a particular God or religion? * Without God, does that mean “anything goes”? * Does belief in a particular God or religion incline one to morality? Does it
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The Department of Philosophy at Rockford College announces a new minor track in Ethics [pdf]. Our department’s faculty members have strength in a wide range of philosophical areas, but all of us have special expertise in ethics, so we have put together an option for students wishing to concentrate in that area. Introduction to Ethics,
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[Warning in this litigious age: Humor ahead.] Those of us with artistic sensibilities often find it a challenge to communicate (and commune with) our revolutionary artistic credos using totally inadequate bourgeois concepts. So my comrade in arms, George Plumley, sent me a very helpful link: The Market-O-Matic (1.0) [fine arts version]. The results are in.
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