Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Etc.
Posted in Culture, Ethics, Philosophy, politics on Apr 18th, 2008
[pt. 1 is here]
From the Compassion Forum, last Sunday, at a college in a small town in Pennsylvania:
CLINTON: So maybe . . . this impoverishment of body and soul is what we are expected to be spending our time responding to, and so few of us do.
Even those who are doing wonderful work [...]
I have a new article up at The Free Liberal. You can read it here.
Posted in Philosophy, ethnicity, politics on Nov 7th, 2007
Talking about definitions, I have one of which I’m particularly fond:
Government is the group with the biggest guns.
When I hear about how the government is going to do something other than kill people, or keep people from killing people by threatening to kill the first people, I get confused.
How are you going to feed the [...]
In his book, The Undercover Economist, Tim Harford said something I’d never considered before:
Both seller and buyer come out ahead on their exchange. The seller wants the buyer’s money more than the product he’s selling. The buyer wants the seller’s product more than her money. An exchange happens and both profit.
Charities aren’t like that. The [...]
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