Reprising this recommendation of four books that focus on the postmodern challenge in specific intellectual areas: * Literature: John Ellis, Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities. * History: Keith Windschuttle, The Killing of History. * Science: Noretta Koertge, editor, A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science. * Law: […]
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[Frank advice about a “violent natural inclination” from sage Benjamin Franklin, supposing that celibacy is not a desirable option.] “But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking that Commerce with the Sex is inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice that in your Amours you should prefer old Women to young
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Note to self: “Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier methods of attaining any object, when the whole attention of their minds is directed towards that single object, than when it is dissipated among a great variety of things. But in consequence of the division of labour, the whole of everyman’s attention
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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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1/31 Thomas Sowell on horses and buggies and Ford Has Worst Year Ever But Won’t Ask for Aid. Almost makes me want to go out and buy a Ford. (Thanks to Bob M. for the link.) And it surprises me to say, “the never-ending attempt to reconcile science and religion, and why it is doomed
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12/28 When absurdist humor is almost real: beautiful, beautiful libraries from around the world. 12/19 Jeff Jacoby on the was Hitler “abnormal”, or was he a person with normal capacities who chose an evil path? And speaking of evil: a report on the ifeminists.) 12/15 A fine pair of quotations from Robert Heinlein and Thomas
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11/30 Free flip flops for drunks: Since your mom can’t always go barhopping with you, cystic fibrosis is just too white. (Via paying for organ donors. 11/27 Many grains of truth here: Donald Frazell’s What exactly is art? (Thanks to Bob H. for the link.) 11/26 John Allison’s talk to the Moore School of Business
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11/30 Why were Enron’s Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling convicted? Professor Larry Ribstein argues that Is there a rational basis for determinism? And in Spiked, Stuart Derbyshire surveys the state of brain science and free will and argues that women in India. (Thanks to Virginia for the link.) Prospect magazine has this fascinating overview (statist
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