Did you build that?
From a book within a book:
“He said that architecture was truly the greatest of the arts, because it was anonymous, as all greatness. …
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Power does not corrupt
Here are Acton’s famous words: “I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way, against the holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make
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Do cry for me, Argentina
Troubles mounting in Argentina due to a government plagued by corruption scandals and heavy-handed, dysfunctional economic intervention and controls.
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Football and continental philosophy
A perfect send up from the Onion: “Pre-Game Coin Toss Makes Jaguars Realize Randomness Of Life. After comprehending the capricious nature of fate, the Jacksonville Jaguars could not go through with the charade of playing a meaningless football game.” (Thanks to E.F. for the link.)
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New channel for my Philosophy of Education lectures
My 15-lecture series on the Philosophy of Education in a dedicated playlist at YouTube. The videos are still also available at my site here. Thanks to Chris Vaughan for setting this up.
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Are Austrian economists anti-empirical?
An instructive trio of essays by economists at Cato Unbound about Austrian economics’ reputation — especially Mises’s praxeological version — for being strongly a priori rationalist: Is Austrian economics anti-empiricist? Steve Horwitz says no. Bryan Caplan says yes. George Selgin also says yes. To Selgin’s series of quotations from Mises, I’d add this one from
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Ronald Hamowy, R.I.P.
Ronald Hamowy has died. He was a student of Friedrich Hayek’s, educated at the University of Chicago, historian, libertarian, Cato fellow, and emeritus professor at the University of Alberta in Canada. I knew him slightly as my editor when I wrote the article on “The Enlightenment” for The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, which he published with
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The war death toll in Afghanistan
As of September 9, 2012: Years: Number of US troops killed 2001-2004: 161 deaths 2005-2008: 469 deaths 2009-2012: 1,484 deaths Why the lack of attention to the rising death toll? Is the nation war weary? Or merely uninformed? If uninformed, have the media decided the war is less newsworthy? Or less objectionable? Where has the
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