Here are details of the programme that accompanies the book of the same title with a foreword by none other than the very excellent Lawrence Powell whose masterful history was reviewed here. Historyirma thomasjohn goodmanlawrence PowellMichael Whitenew orleansWalter Isaacson
Symposium on Tullock led by Peter Boettke with Michael Munger, David Levy (whom I recently had the pleasure of meeting) and Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard. Click here for the discussion. david levygordon tullockMichael MungerPeter BoettkePeter Kurrild-Klitgaardrational choicerent-seeking
Scathing assessment of prevailing academia by Binoy Kampmark, well and truly caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, higher education institutions are encouraged to be functional to market requirements (ROI, translational research); while on the other hand, so much of the university is given over to ideological indoctrination, activism masquerading as disinterested inquiry—i.e.…
Without getting over one’s head with the larger question of truth, one might still guess that it is extraordinarily rash of the positivist to limit truth to the logical approximation-to say that we cannot know what things are but only how they hang together. The copy theory gives no account of the what we are…
The latest issue of COSMOS + TAXIS is now available. complexityConversationcosmos & taxisJazzmusicSpontaneous order
My chum the very excellent Graham MacDonald has a new book coming out. aestheticsenvironmentalismGraham MacDonaldintellectual historyjohn ruskinnatural lawPolitical philosophy
complexitycosmos & taxisdistributed knowledgeFriedrich Hayekpolitical economySpontaneous order
Philippe Lemoine’s close-grained analysis on the topic also understood by others such as Melanie Phillips. Along with Douglas Murray’s latest article inevitably all this points to a rather bleak outlook for UK Jewry. My brief thoughts on the matter of the regressive’s complicity with Islamofascism outlined here. authoritarianismChristopher Hitchensdouglas murrayilliberalismislamofascismJew hatredMelanie PhillipsNazismPhilippe Lemoineregressive left
Sounding ever more familiar? Chris O’Leary writes: It’s one of the most brutal lines Bowie ever wrote: “Forget that I’m fifty, ’cause you just got paid.” While the song basically ends at 1:40, the guitar and harmonica extend the track for four more 12-bar choruses, starting a fifth as the track fades out, suggesting the…
Robert Laurence Binyon’s classic poem. Painting by Jacqueline Hurley. freedomJacqueline HurleyliberalityPoetryremembranceRobert Laurence Binyon
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