My sometime collaborator, Ted Lewis, has co-authored this piece in American Scientist.
The Evolutionary Limits of Liberalism
Expulsion of Jews from the Arab Countries and Iran
On this day marking the expulsion. The removal of the Jews from the Arab world has been all but ignored, says Tom Gross. Of course, the regressives are conspicuously silent on this.
A Confederacy of Dunces: The Folio Society Edition
The Definitive Jonathan Miller Documentary
Etiquette for Infants
Guide for the Perplexed
See Maimonides’ entry for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The Guide for the Perplexed is freely available from the Liberty Fund.
At his trial for impiety in 399 B.C., Socrates was asked how it is that the wisest person in Athens claims to be ignorant of the knowledge he seeks. His answer (Apology 23a-b) is that he is wise because unlike others, he recognizes that when measured against divine wisdom, human wisdom is of little or no value. Although it is doubtful that he read Socrates’ words, there is little question that this is the insight Maimonides is trying to preserve. That person is wisest who recoils in awe and humility in the face of something infinitely greater than he or she can fathom.
Yours truly in Cordova
Rare Robert Nozick interview
To mark the birth of Robert Nozick here is a rare interview I came across: it begins at 3:25.
Review of Walker Percy’s Symbol and Existence
Micah Mattix in The American Conservative (November/December 2019)
Reclaiming Liberalism
- Preface — David F. Hardwick and Leslie Marsh
1. Reclaiming Democratic Classical Liberalism – David Ellerman
2. Democracy, Liberalism, and Discretion: The Political Puzzle of the Administrative State – Stephen Turner
3. Ordoliberalism as the Operationalisation of Liberal Politics – Mikayla Novak
4. Liberalism, Through a Glass Darkly – David F. Hardwick and Leslie Marsh
5. Liberalism and the Modern Quest for Freedom – David D. Corey
6. Liberalism for the 21st Century: From Markets to Civil Society, from Economics to Human Beings – Gus diZerega
7. The Origins of the Rule of Law – Andrew Irvine
8. Burke’s Liberalism: Prejudice, Habit, and Affections and the Remaking of the Social Contract – Lauren Hall
9. Democratic Peace Theory, Montesquieu, and Public Choice – Sarah Burns and Chad Van Schoelandt
10. ‘China’s Hayek’ and the Horrors of Totalitarianism: the Liberal Lessons in Gu Zhun’s Thought – Chor-yung Cheung
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