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• Some philosophical thoughts on Climategate

  
  Aristotle The Geek — Authority: 124
  The Guardian has an article the title of which they changed because… …we got the impression people were reading just the headline and not engaging with the article before commenting, which tends not to result in the highest quality debate. It’s not as if we’ve changed the question raised by the event, ...
  23 hours ago

• CLIMATEGATE IS A DOUBLE-EDGED CAUSE, SO BEWARE

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 127
  I want to go on record here sooner than later about this thing called Climategate. I am on record many times saying that it is not a question of whether or not 9/11 was an inside job but rather only a matter of how deep and wide. This thing called Climategate at best must be approached from the opposite direction. ...
  1 day ago

• Objectivism & Politics, Part 35

  
  Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature — Authority: 113
  Politics of Human Nature 19: Businessmen and the state. In the last post, I examined how economic interests can bias even businessmen against laissez-faire. In this post, I will examine another side of this issue illustrated by Rand’s tendency to rigidly divide businessmen into two classes: (1) competent ...
  2 days ago

• Objectivism & Politics, Part 34

  
  Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature — Authority: 113
  Politics of Human Nature 18: Economic interests and “rationality.” The current economic debacle has once and for all refuted the belief in the rational actor model, otherwise known as Homo economicus, and for that at least we can be thankful. That everyone pursues economic interests, and some pursue them to the ...
  1 week ago

• Steve Ditko’s ‘The Ever Unreachable’

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 751
  For comic book readers, Steve Ditko is a name to be reckoned with. In a career spanning more than five decades, Ditko has drawn countless pages in every genre for every major publisher. Ditko has created scores of original characters and is probably best known for co-creating The Amazing Spider-Man. Ditko is also ...
  2 weeks ago

• Objectivism & Politics, Part 33

  
  Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature — Authority: 113
  Politics of Human Nature 17: Vanity and “social metaphysics.” Closely related to the obsession with preeminence and status is vanity. The pervasiveness of this emotion in human nature was satirized to good effect in a bit of amusing doggerel by an unnamed poet as follows: I am hungry for praise: I would to God ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ascensão e Coma do “liberalismo” – hipótese de investigação

  
  Janela na web — Authority: 104
  O pensamento liberal na economia teve um processo evolutivo que, em muitos aspectos, acompanhou as vagas de globalização. Apesar de não desenvolvermos esse ponto neste texto, as fases do liberalismo económico associaram-se a fases geopolíticas distintas da projecção externa das duas grandes potências ...
  2 weeks ago

• Laissez-faire Security – A Good Thing

  
  UNIX Administratosphere — Authority: 412
  Bruce Schneier wrote today about a paper that describes something it calls laissez-faire security: the idea that tight role-based security (RBAC) will lead to situations where the security prevents people from doing what they need to do for their jobs, which subsequently leads to normal people finding ways to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Objectivism & Politics, Part 32

  
  Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature — Authority: 113
  Politics of Human Nature 16: Struggle for preeminence. Social darwinists use to argue that within society there existed a brutal “struggle for existence” in which stronger types “eliminate” weaker types. Although we now know this theory to be erroneous, at one time it seemed plausible; and the reason it did ...
  4 weeks ago

• Theobald on Returning Rural Values to Education

  
  Homeschooling Research Notes — Authority: 107
  This post reviews Paul Theobald, Education Now: How Rethinking America’s Past Can Change Its Future (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2009).  [An article that summarizes many of the points made in the book is available here ] Theobald, Woods-Beals Chair of Urban and Rural Education at Buffalo State College ...
  4 weeks ago

• ‘Political capitalism’ explained in Wichita

  
  Voice For Liberty in Wichita — Authority: 427
  In Wichita this Monday, Robert L. Bradley, Jr. explained the state of capitalism in America today, using his experience working in a high-level position at the failed energy conglomerate Enron as a backdrop. Bradley asked: What happened to business prudence? What has happened to capitalism? The answer is that ...
  5 weeks ago

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