An inspiring university points to the future
Atlas is not shrugging at Francisco Marroquín University in Guatemala.
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Interview: David N. Mayer on constitutional interpretation
My interview at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship with Dr. David N. Mayer on his forthcoming book on U.S. Constitutional interpretation, Freedom’s Constitution.
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Architecture and politics
How structures concretize a political system’s core social dynamic: . Feudalism: Build walls to keep the enemy out. Examples: the medieval castle, the Great Wall of China. . . . . . . Socialism: Build walls to keep your people in. Examples: the Berlin Wall, the Koreas’ DMZ. . . . . . . .
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Interview: C. Bradley Thompson on Leo Strauss and the neo-conservatives
My two-part interview at CEE with Dr. C. Bradley Thompson about his forthcoming book Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea, focusing on the early 20th-century political philosopher Leo Strauss’s influence on the founders of Neoconservativism. Part I Part II More interviews with CEE’s guest speakers are available here.
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“Postmodernism Unpeeled” discussion with David Thompson
David Thompson is a critic and commentator with strong interests in pop culture and postmodernism. His interview with me based on my book Explaining Postmodernism is now posted at his site. Previous interviews I’ve done on postmodernism’s themes and roots were published in Navigator and New Individualist magazines. The following scholarly reviews of the book
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Interview: C. Bradley Thompson on John Adams
My interview at CEE with C. Bradley Thompson, Ph.D., on founding father John Adams’s moral character and his importance to the American Revolution. Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrezjXWDiZ4 Part II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtuYZSJdHfY More interviews with CEE’s guest speakers are available here.
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Pathologies of the mixed economy (or, How we got into this frackin’ mess)
Putting into one flowchart what I have learned from Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, and Gordon Tullock. The flowchart is in spreadsheet format: the short version and the long version in Excel 2007 or in Excel 97-2003. Update: DJ Dates has a cool, scalable Google maps version
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Worth Reading for February 2009
2/6 Some slipperiness in using “altruism” here (“benevolence” is more accurate for most of the cases she mentions), but Sally Satel’s heart and mind are in the right place about our semi-functional organ-donation system and When Keynesianism Isn’t Moral. 2/5 Following the InstaPundit’s lead: In this era of St. Anthony, patron saint of pigs and
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