Recentemente, eu encontrei um jovem em Miami. Ao invés de tomar um táxi, eu decidir testar o Uber pela primeira vez. Rafael (não é seu verdadeiro nome) chegou alguns minutos depois. Por ser a hora do rush em Miami, o tráfego estava lento e, ao longo do caminho, começamos a conversar. Ele era um cubano, e […]
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Imagine the Classified Ads section of a publication. Buyers and sellers place advertisements for violins, cars, horses, services, furniture, clothing, and so on. The publisher organizes the ads into classifications such as Auto, Clothing, Furniture, Musical Instruments, Services, etc. But there are always a few ads that don’t fit the existing classification scheme, e.g., “For
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[This is a Portuguese translation of “Will the Real Scrooge Please Stand Up?, first published in The Good Life.] Todos nós sabemos da história de Ebenezer Scrooge, certo? A obra Um Conto de Natal de Charles Dickens gerou uma variedade espantosa de interpretações, e como a maioria dos contos, as interpretações frequentemente nos dizem muito
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[Re-pinning for this season’s festivities.] We all know the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge. Or do we? Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol has generated an astonishing variety of interpretations, and as with most rich tales the interpretations often tell us as much about the interpreter as the original story. The legend of Robin Hood is a
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For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. All files are PDFs. Thomas Aquinas, “Whether it is lawful to kill sinners?” and “Whether heretics ought to be tolerated?” From Summa Theologica (1265-1274). Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930). Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson (1946). Martin Luther, excerpts from The
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Worth reading: David Ramsay Steele’s now-classic article on the intellectual origins and practical evolution of fascism — “The Mystery of Fascism.” “From 1912 to 1914, Mussolini was the Che Guevara of his day, a living saint of leftism. Handsome, courageous, charismatic, an erudite Marxist, a riveting speaker and writer, a dedicated class warrior to the
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Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Hicks: I’m Stephen Hicks, here at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship with Dr. David R. Henderson, an economist visiting from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Dr. Henderson is the author of many books and articles,
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Over ten years ago, some of us were complaining that the postmodern art world had become repetitive — and worse, boring — as it was merely recycling the same old tropes about nothingness and waste products. Two images making the social-media rounds this week: Nothing in Paris: Rectal explorations in São Paulo: So I repeat:
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