Some moral and political theories are completely insensitive to consequences. These moral theories are crazy; I dismiss them with prejudice. Any sensible moral or political theory has some concern for…
Ross Levatter at libertarianism.org attempts but fails to take me to task for asking the following question: Imagine that a bunch of economists provide compelling evidence that life in a…
One study claims that tenure-track professors tend to be worse teachers (at the introductory level) than adjuncts or other non-tenure-track instructors. See the write-up in the Atlantic here. The main argument:…
Megan McArdle explains why and how Costco and Walmart have very different business models and serve different functions. We can’t expect Walmart to pay like Costco (or Trader Joe’s). I’m…
A follow-up on this previous post. Marcus Arvan at University of Tampa has an interesting post here about “selling the discipline” of philosophy to get more majors. Among his major selling…