Here’s a seven-minute podcast of me talking with the WSJ‘s Charlie Turner about my article “What Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us All About Life.” From the article: “We often think of entrepreneurs as larger-than-life characters. They take big risks. They make their own rules. They innovate and experiment, questioning things everybody else takes for granted. “It
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For weekend readers, two articles from me this week on the campus battles: “Should Politicians Force Diversity at Universities?” Published by the Berens Foundation’s The Right Insight. Excerpt on politicized universities: “Politicians must then choose either (1) to fail in their responsibilities to taxpayers by continuing to spend their money on educationally irresponsible institutions, or
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I’m enjoying Bartley Madden’s Value Creation Thinking. Madden has much real-world experience in business from his years as a managing director at Credit Suisee HOLT. He’s also read deeply into the ethics and economics literature. We all know the complaints about the business world — corporations enjoy low public trust, “capitalism” is a dirty word
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It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even to every Bachelor of Arts, That all sin is divided into two parts. One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very important, And it is what you are doing when you are doing something you ortant, And the other kind
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I’ve long respected the ancient Greeks for their earthy approach to religion, with their many gods and goddesses representing human concerns: hygiene, fertility, reason, technology, hunting, war, and so on. And of course Dionysos — you have to admire a culture that has a god for drinking and partying. New to me is the Roman
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I’m featured in Toronto’s Metro Canada newspaper’s “Defining Free Speech on Campus,” (page 9) as one of three perspectives on the current suppression/censorship versus tolerance/liberalism antagonisms. The other two participants are Denio Lourenco and Zachary Strong, who take opposite stances on University of Toronto’s Jordan Peterson. Metro reporter Genna Buck did the interviews and compiled
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Nobody likes to lose money, but profit generates polarized attitudes. As with most morally-charged phenomena—competition, wealth, poverty, property—getting past the often confused discussions requires some subtle distinctions. Let’s approach profit by way of an example of its opposite—an accidental destruction of property. Suppose that I’m careless and drive my car onto your yard, tearing up
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Dr. Laura Grube is a guest speaker in my Business and Economic Ethics class today. She became Assistant Professor of Economics at Beloit College in Wisconsin after receiving her Ph.D. from George Mason University. Before that she was a Fulbright Student in South Africa and worked as a business analyst at Deloitte Consulting and senior
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