From the yearly archives: 2010
Which form of government is “our form of government?” According to political commentators and network news, we have a democracy. Do we?
According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary (www.meriam-webster.com):
Democracy: is a: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in [...]
I find myself constantly amazed at the lack of ethics and logic, even just plain common sense, regarding our treatment of children in society. The startling lack of judgment on the part of the Lower Merion School District (The latest headlines read:
A suburban school district secretly captured at least 56,000 webcam photographs [...]
This article on Mises.org (HT: Blake Stephenson) gives an example of how the negative feedback loops inherent in large, centrally directed bureaucracies stifle the use of judgment, local knowledge and initiative.
The article illustrates why the modern state should not be in charge of public education. But I think it also suggests that there [...]
St. Johns College President Christopher Nelson recently gave an address about the value of a liberal arts education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
If you have ever asked me why I went to St. Johns, what I think is so great about the liberal arts, or why I think that [...]
“We are probably only at the threshold of an age in which the technological possibilities of mind control are likely to grow rapidly and what may appear at first as innocuous or beneficial powers over the personality of the individual will be at the disposal of government. The greatest threats to human freedom probably still [...]
I ran across a piece of news-gossip about the iPad recently that I thought was interesting. The story is that Apple’s iPad iBooks store will carry the entire Gutenberg Project for free download. {Story found here} For those of you who don’t know what Gutenberg Project it is a user-content-generated website that has [...]
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“Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not,
as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe,
an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory”
~Emily Post, American Etiquette Pioneer
A new study in the journal Psychological Science concluded [...]
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