manwithoutqualities

Argerich in her prime playing Schumann’s Piano Concerto, Ravel’s Jeux d’Eau, and Liszt’s Les Funerailles. Franz-Paul Decker conducts the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Symphony (July 31, 1977).

Classical music Liszt Martha Argerich piano Ravel Schumann

The calling of social thought: Rediscovering the work of Edward Shils

January 23, 2019Edward Shils

As someone who is a big fan of Shils I’m very much looking forward to this.

edward shils ideology Liberal education Michael Oakeshott Michael Polanyi Social theory Sociology Stephen Turner Tradition

The Emergence of the Mind: Hayek’s Account of Mental Phenomena as a Product of Spontaneous Physical and Social Orders

January 23, 2019friedrich hayek

Gloria’s chapter.

Friedrich Hayek Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo Hayek in Mind mirror neurons Ontology Sensory Order spontaneous orders

Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith: Review

January 20, 2019adam smith

Warm review by Laurie Bréban in Journal of the History of Economic Thought

Adam Smith Laurie Bréban Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith Theory of Moral Sentiments Wealth of Nations

Look at Yourself

January 19, 2019music

music regressive left rock 'n roll uriah heep

From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel

January 18, 2019regressive left

The (“pussy-hatted”) sheep-like disproportionate support offered by the middle and upper classes for the Women’s March, tone-deaf to its Jew-hating leadership, is a now commonplace mainstreamed dissimulation disguised as merely criticism of Israel and buttressed by useful idiots (or shit-puppets as we say in the trailer park). I spent many an hour chatting with Wistrich when he was at UCL.