In 1689 John Locke noted, wryly: the Church … is for the most part more apt to be influenced by the Court than the Court by the Church. How the Church was under the vicissitude of orthodox and Arian emperors is very well known. Or if those things be too remote, our modern English history […]
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[With Trump-strategist Steve Bannon all over the news, here’s a re-post of my one encounter with the Breitbart news and commentary site he headed.] What can I say? According to Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government website, Professor Stephen Hicks of Rockford College is a Marxist devoted to educating cadres of revolutionaries. Many people posted/emailed the Breitbart
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I know a guy who’s a longtime Cubs fan, a Trump voter, and whose wife is tomorrow giving birth to their daughter. Will this be the best week of his whole life? (By contrast, I imagine there’s a Cleveland Indians fan who was enthusiastic for Clinton but lost a loved one. Must this be that
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I made this chart for comparing Clinton, Johnson, and Trump on the six dimensions that I think are most important in selecting a president. To use the chart the way I did for myself, score each candidate from 1 to 10 for each dimension, with 10 being the highest possible positive score. Then total your
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Penis trees, anus trumpets, horseplay, and more. And then you go to Hell. Source: Got Medieval.
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[This excerpt is from Chapter 3 of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault] Heidegger’s synthesis of the Continental tradition Martin Heidegger took Hegelian philosophy and gave it a personal, phenomenological twist. Heidegger is notorious for the obscurity of his prose and for his actions and inactions on behalf of the National Socialists
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Missouri. It is the “Show Me” State. Legend has it that the “show-me” is captures Missourians’ no-nonsense, matter-of-fact attitude. Don’t ask me to take your word for it, stranger. Give me something real to go on. As far as I know, Missouri’s is the only epistemological slogan in the country. Maybe even in the world.
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Steve Jobs on integrity: “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
9/30 At Entrepreneur.com, ten businesses that likely differences between male and female entrepreneurs? 9/29 In a Swedish Institute for Social Research working paper, economists Daniel Klein and Charlotta Stern wonder The Volokh Conspiracy.) To help with that intellectual deficit, here is a great list of free George Reisman’s The Government Against the Economy when I
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