May 21, 2013
Barack Obama’s Political Philosophy
(Author’s note: this is a post about ideas, not politics. It is unrelated to current events. It simply examines the philosophical views expressed by our Chief Executive.) In a number…
Month: May 2013
May 21, 2013
Liberty is Personal
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” Rudyard Kipling Recent research has done a great deal to remind us that, as a species,…
May 21, 2013
Defining Social Justice, Etc.
[Note: Sorry for the strange lack of paragraph breaks under the fold. I don’t know how to fix this.] David Friedman is worried that the term “social justice” has no…
May 20, 2013
Links
Will Wilkinson on the reasonable suspicion of racism about bad social science that purports to prove conclusions that just happen to be tropes of racism. (See also– this is me,…
May 18, 2013
Noticed elsewhere
Who Spends More, Left or Right?”, a report from the Montreal Economic Institute by by Michel Kelly-Gagnon and Vincent Geloso. In an analysis of spending per GDP in Quebec, Canada,…