Below is the text of an open letter published in The Huffington Post on September 19, 2012 by Thor Halvorssen, Founder of the Human Rights Foundation. The letter is useful for Business Ethics courses in discussions of marketing and advertising using popular political figures, especially political figures with a record like Guevara’s. An Open Letter
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Theories of International Politics and Zombies is Daniel Drezner’s mostly tongue-in-cheek* discussion of various theories’ takes on the zombie threat. Having watched two zombie shows in my life — The Omega Man** when I was 11, and The Walking Dead this year — I consider myself expertly qualified to comment on Drezner’s book: It is
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Three recent and encouraging data points: The collapse of Damien Hirst’s art market — Bloomberg notes that “at a time when the contemporary art market has sharply rebounded, with auctions pulling in proceeds that rival the giddiest pre-recession highs,” Hirst’s value has jumped the shark. “Hirst works acquired during his commercial peak, between 2005 and
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My short, unhappy review [pdf] of Carlin Romano’s America the Philosophical (A.A. Knopf, 2012) is now out in the latest issue of Reason Papers. The issue as a whole [pdf] also features a timely symposium of seven scholars on Sari Nusseibeh’s What Is a Palestinian State Worth?, several independent essays, and ten reviews of recent
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Classics: * Wealth and life expectancy. * Cosmopolitanism and individualism. * The cornucopia. * That progress in understanding political economy is possible.
Adam Curtis at the BBC blog gives us two identical video clips set to very different music. Listen to some of each clip to see whether you experience what Curtis suggests. About the first clip, Curtis says, “I think it gives a sense that we are all together in the dance.” I agree. But the
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I like David Henderson’s approach to this solemn day of focusing on the individuals involved in wars rather than the often-gestural generalities. Henderson highlights the moving second stanza of John McCrae’s In Flanders Fields: In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The
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Professor Kline visited Rockford College on Tuesday to give a talk on four major thinkers — Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Smith — who in large part established the intellectual framework for our modern business world. Kline is a professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois, Springfield. Here is my seven-minute follow-up interview with Kline
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