In The Wall Street Journal, David Luhnow contrasts “The Two Latin Americas” — one oriented to the Atlantic and statism and the other oriented to the Pacific and markets. “In 2014, the Pacific Alliance trade bloc (consisting of Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile) is slated to grow an average of 4.25%, boosted by high levels […]
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The Polish translation of Nietzsche and the Nazis will be published in March of 2014. The publisher is Foundation Fuhrmann. Many thanks to Przemysław Zientkowski of Nicholas Copernicus University for arranging this translation and publication. I’ll post again about availability when the book is out officially.
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Updated my Intellectual History page to reflect recent posting.
My top 13 posts for 2013, according to my site’s statistics generator: 1. European country data on the minimum wage. 2. Defining Modernism and Postmodernism chart. 3. Collectivizing sex — Alexandra Kollontai’s communist version. 4. Galileo and the modern compromise. 5. Lessons from the Bhopal chemical-spill disaster. 6. 13 arguments for liberal capitalism in 13
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To start the year off: P. S. Johnson’s pleasurable tour through 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art, accompanied by J. S. Bach.
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What if we applied the many arguments for economic controls to sex? An important announcement: From the Office of the Reproducer-General [mp3] or [YouTube]. The original post: “From the Office of the Reproducer-General” [or as pdf].
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‘Tis the season for Christmas carols, revised for philosophical accuracy, with explanatory links, just for fun. Sigmund Freud: I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus Underneath the mistletoe last night. But with therapy I think that I Should recover and become all right. . William James: Angels we have heard while high. . . . Jean-Jacques
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Here’s a print version [pdf] of my post on “’Third Way’ politics and its fruits” from earlier this year. Thanks to Chris Vaughan for his graphics work. The opening: “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
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