The fourth C+T Conference will be held in Vancouver, May 23-26, 2019. Here’s the call for papers. classical liberalismcosmos & taxisJane Jacobsspontaneous ordersurban planning
IT IS A MATTER for astonishment, when one comes to think of it, how little use linguistics and other sciences of language are to psychiatrists. When one considers that the psychiatrist spends most of his time listening and talking to patients, one might suppose that there would be such a thing as a basic science of listening-and-talking, as indispensable to…
Given today’s news concerning Elon Musk and his company SpaceX it’s an opportune time to announce that this, the first volume of this new series, will be published shortly. To keep apprised of publishing developments sign up to the series’ Facebook page. classical liberalismElon MuskPeter Lothian nelsonspace capitalismspacexwalter block
The very excellent Elizabeth Corey’s First Things review of Aurelian Craiutu’s the Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes. Aurelian CraiutuElizabeth CoreyLiberalismMichael OakeshottmoderationPolitical philosophy
The very excellent Jesse Norman has alerted me to his forthcoming book which will be the subject of a COSMOS + TAXIS symposium appearing sometime next year. Adam Smithclassical liberalismJesse Normanphilosophy of social sciencepolitical economyPolitical philosophy
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Below is an extract (the first section of Chapter 2) of Ralf Bader’s most excellent and crisp Robert Nozick (pp. 10-14). Famously, Nozick begins his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia with the claim: ‘Individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights)’ (p. ix). This claim…
H/T Brian Smith. Charlie Clark in Fare Forward. One of Percy’s most lost characters speaks more truly than he knows: “I like your banal little cathedral in the Vieux Carré. It is set down squarely in the midst of the greatest single concentration of drunks, drugheads, whores, pimps, queers, sodomists in the hemisphere. But isn’t that where…
One of the all-time bass greats. Glad to see that there are a few Thain aficionados out there. Audio Culture has a rough and ready page dedicated to the man. This YouTube comment pretty much sums up his status. bassgary thainuriah heep
The longer we think about it, the more mysterious the simplest act of naming becomes. It is, we begin to realize, quite without precedent in all of natural history as we know it. But so, you might reply, is the emergence of the eye without precedent, so is sexual reproduction without precedent. These are nevertheless…
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