Keynote speech at TRAC art conference in November
Keynote speech this November on Figurative Art and Philosophy.
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Profiles in Liberty: Robert Lawson
Our CEE interview with Southern Methodist University economist Robert Lawson. Dr. Lawson answers these questions and more about his life and work: Why did you become an economist? What readings were inspirational to you as a student? Where did you get your undergraduate degree? Why did you decide to go to graduate school? Where did
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Igor Stravinsky’s first impression of the United States
From his autobiography, about his first trip to America in 1925: “Without stopping to describe my visual impressions on landing in New York — skyscrapers, traffic, lights, Negroes, cinemas, theatres, in fact all that rouses the curiosity of foreigners, and very rightly so — I want to begin by bearing witness as a musician to
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Johann Herder as prophet of the contemporary university
[Herder (1744-1802) was an early Counter-Enlightenment voice calling for group identity politics and value relativism, along with a rejection of cultural appropriation and an embrace of zero-sum cultural conflict. The following is excerpted from Explaining Postmodernism.] Herder on multicultural relativism Sometimes called the “German Rousseau,”[1] Johann Herder had studied philosophy and theology at Königsberg University. Kant was
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Einstein and Schopenhauer
I did not know this: In Einstein’s study in Berlin in the 1920s, three portraits hung on the wall: Michael Faraday, James Clerk Maxwell, and Arthur Schopenhauer. I learned that from Don Howard’s fascinating “A Peek behind the Veil of Maya” (pdf). Schopenhauer’s pessimism was extreme. Reality, he wrote in The World as Will and
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Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration’s 50th anniversary
Letter to Roger Weightman, on the planned celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence Monticello June 24. 26 Respected Sir The kind invitation I receive from you on the part of the citizens of the city of Washington, to be present with them at their celebration of the 50th. anniversary of American
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Third-Way Politics and Its Bitter Fruits [Good Life series]
Beware the compromisers — a lesson from this generation’s history. In 1998, President Bill Clinton announced: “We have moved past the sterile debate between those who say Government is the problem and those who say Government is the solution. My fellow Americans, we have found a Third Way.” Third Way politics became popular in the
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“Bootleggers, Baptists, and The Jones Act” article published
My short article “Bootleggers, Baptists, and The Jones Act” was published as part of the Political Ethics series at the Berens Foundation’s site. “Suppose that a freak Atlantic storm pummels the city of Boston, leaving it flooded for days and cut off from services by land and air — trucks cannot reach it and planes
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