Following up on a series of recent posts on Marxism and its fellow travelers (Engels, Mao, Guzmán, Hobsbawm), a question about whether Marxism’s brutal history is a built-in consequence of its principles or an accidental by-product of well-intentioned theory. So a series of quotations from some principal figures: Marx in 1848: “there is only one […]
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From his Playboy interview in 1985: “We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We
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I’ll be speaking on Entrepreneurial Ethics this coming Wednesday evening at Wheeling Jesuit University. Some of my remarks will be based on my “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship,” and the rest will connect those themes to other works in progress. The talk is part of part of the Distinguished Speaker Series. Thanks to
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My colleague Shawn Klein has organized a trip for Rockford College students to see Atlas Shrugged, Part II on Friday, October 12 at 5:05 pm. Interested students can see the movie for free, courtesy of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. (Only the tickets are free — not concessions or transportation.) Check out the trailer.
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What if Winston Churchill had been killed in a traffic accident, as he almost was in New York in 1931? Would World War II have turned out significantly differently? What if Alexander the Great had decided to expand westward instead of eastward in the 300s BCE? Would the early Romans have developed their vigorous republic?
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Let us dwell upon this year’s ranking of Illinois as among the worst states for business: 48th out of 50.[1] That is unchanged from last year. So people are leaving: “Illinois had the second-highest net domestic migration loss, sending 79,000 of its residents to other states. Illinois had ranked 49th in net domestic migration in
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Wade Guyton uses a computer printer to generate long strips of linen with red and green stripes. And he is the subject of a positive profile in The New York Times. Guyton says this about his training: “I never really enjoyed drawing or art classes.” And about his inspiration: “I realized that the process of
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A quotation about this academic, who lived a long, comfortable life in England justifying the theory and practice of communism.
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