From Wired magazine’s profile of Reid Hoffman. I like this section where Hoffman says that each one of us needs to “think about our lives as entrepreneurs, using this playbook as a way five years from now to be in more control of my life, create more value in myself and the world around me, […]
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At Amazon’s Kindle books section, my Explaining Postmodernism holds two of the top six places for books on postmodernism. The first edition is now first, and the expanded edition is now sixth. [Update March 6: Now 1st and 4th.] They are neck-and-neck with The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism and The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism, two
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From Peter Gay’s brief biography, about the terrible brevity of life in Mozart’s time. Wolfgang Mozart “was born in Salzburg on January 27, 1756, the seventh and last child of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart. Of his siblings, five died in infancy, and only one sister, four years his elder, survived … . This appalling
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Last semester in my Philosophical Foundations of Education course, I worked closely with Marsha Familaro Enright to use Socratic education. As a result of that experiment, I’ve started a Socratic Seminars page with resources. Here are Marsha Enright, Darian George, and Jason Ware in a three-minute conversation about the aspirations of Socratic Seminars.
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Wonderful TED talk by educator Sugata Mitra on children’s natural initiative, the Internet, and what can be done without teachers. Thematically, Mitra’s fun talk is very Locke, Montessori, and, at the end, Hayek. (Via Arnold Kling.)
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The Nazis were evil, killing millions of human beings, and they have universally and properly properly condemned for their horrors. The Soviets were also evil, killing more millions than the Nazis did, yet they have not been universally condemned. The Soviets have been attacked by libertarians, conservatives, and moderates as a great lesson in evil
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David R. Henderson is associate professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and research fellow with the Hoover Institution. He has written for the New York Times, Fortune, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Reason, as well as scholarly articles for the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the
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Part of a work-in-progress in philosophy of economics, here is the video of a seminar I led on “Economics as a Value Science.” Part of my argument is that there is a large, problematic gap in economic theory about the relationship between economic facts and economic values. Along the way I discuss Friedrich Hayek, David
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