6/30 Daniel Henninger of The Wall Street Journal comments wryly on the Supreme Court’s latest free speech decision: artistic manifesto, based on a presentation he gave at Rockford College, Illinois. 6/27 In Canada’s National Post, a reflection on the phenomenal Arts and Letters Daily, which the state of Montessori education. And here is Alexandra York […]
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5/30 The Skeptical Optimist has a good post on not socializing entrepreneurship. At Café Hayek, a reminder that one-minute case for profit, part of a great idea of a series. 5/28 The evolution of the climate change debate: Not PC reports on the long view on climate change. From the Great White North of Canada,
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4/28 John Stossel proposes: consistently undersell capitalism. And marketing professor Jerry Kirkpatrick, author of debunks subliminal advertising. 4/27 Beautiful photographs of Cultural and religious control-freaks and controlling yet more “inappropriate” sexual expression. And of course this is entrepreneurial transformation of American business. Key quotation: “since 1980, more than 5 million jobs have disappeared from Fortune
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3/30 Here is an occasionally snarky interview with the gutsy Christopher Hitchens and Infidel was published in February. 3/28 You must watch this 30-minute video of a debate at the University of Toronto: worried about the criminalization of business: cases that should be handled in civil suits are increasingly being taken to criminal courts. Kirkendall
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2/28 It’s never too soon to get excited about the next Olympic Games: rejected the labor theory of value? 2/27 Causality and concept-formation: Arts & Letters Daily.) And here is evidence of higher intelligence: the current worldwide skyscraper boom. And here are some photos of Times Square at night. And while few of these are
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1/31 The theodicy problem in a hilarious three-minute video: Intelligent Design is a pseudo-theory. 1/30 Don’t date your optician: Eugene Volokh takes on Washington state’s ridiculous The Top 10 Ancient Capitals. And great photos of a contemporary financial capital: income inequality. And on happiness and creature comforts: here is Witold Rybczynski’s slide show on Virginia
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12/31 “Somalia, Darfur, Iraq, Afghanistan. Evidence that we live in a world of war and destruction is everywhere. And yet, it is not so.” journalistic bias at the NYT. Which raises the question: What will they say when Castro dies? 12/30 Alone but not lonely: Creativity and European and American pharmaceutical development. Richard Epstein argues
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11/30 Equal time for chemistry and alchemy? In The Harvard Crimson, Steven Pinker has good suggestions in response to a proposed faculty racism in higher education admissions? And are schools underfunded? Andrew Coulson compares Thirteen unanswered questions at the cutting edge of science. And here are several American military power, branch by branch. (Via Arts
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