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Boss Hogg Says Something Interesting
Ben Smith at Politico: Here’s a major moment in the nascent Republican presidential primary: Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour tonight became the first among the leading Republican candidates t… more →
Around The Sphere
10 Years Ago, Noah Feldman Was a Hopeful Tocqueville
wrote 1 week ago: Now a professor at Harvard Law, Noah Feldman was tasked with helping frame the new Iraqi constitutio … more →
DID YOU KNOW THAT "MIRACLES" USE TO BE COMMON IN AMERICA?
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wrote 2 weeks ago: We have lost so many of our freedoms so gradually and so slowly, we don’t know, understand, or … more →
Give Me Security or Give Me Death
wrote 3 weeks ago: What does freedom look like? Human history is full of stories of people making remarkable choices th … more →
What Is A University?
wrote 1 month ago: In my experience, those people who constitute the body of a university are by and large (with some e … more →
Fixing Social Security Is Not As Easy As It Seems
wrote 2 months ago: In my ideal world we would not have Social Security. Now that I have convinced the majority of you t … more →
Snowquester!
wrote 2 months ago: Just an idea of what I am up to today! If you have a snow day today enjoy! (Just as an fyi, my livin … more →
There Are No Free Lunches
wrote 2 months ago: One of the reasons I feel economics should be required study in every high school and college is bec … more →
On Reading-Part X: Seeing the forest through the trees
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wrote 4 months ago: The informational shortcut that we take when we have “too much information” is to engage with it sel … more →
Bookless Libraries? They're Coming
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wrote 4 months ago: Just this week, I was watching an episode of Downton Abbey and one of the scenes was set in the libr … more →
The Closing of the Western Mind
wrote 5 months ago: Hey guys, another paper from my political theory class. I hope you will like it and, as always, plag … more →
In "Democracy in America...
wrote 5 months ago: In “Democracy in America,” Alexis de Tocqueville anticipated people being governed by … more →
speed
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wrote 5 months ago: Not only do men who live in democratic societies devote themselves with difficulty to meditation, bu … more →
Rediscovering Integrity
wrote 5 months ago: “But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me. My foot sta … more →
meditation in america
wrote 5 months ago: Nothing is more necessary to the cultivation of the advanced sciences, or of the higher portion of t … more →
Regulation, Social Norming and Tocqueville's 'Majority'
wrote 5 months ago: There is a well-known model of behavior modification, a taxonomy of sorts of regulatory mechanisms, … more →
Easy Distinction
wrote 6 months ago: Barry talks with Professor Kirk Spencer about a distinction between confidence and competence. Downl … more →
Easy Distinction
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wrote 6 months ago: *Posted by Kirk Spencer First the Dodo marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, (“the exact sh … more →
Wealth Covers A Multitude Of Bankruptcy
wrote 6 months ago: Photogravure of Charles Alexis Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Here is the beg … more →
The Election
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wrote 6 months ago: Opinion: The reëlection (as the New Yorker would say) of Barack Obama was the best possible outcome … more →
