Wednesday, June 11, 2014

So obvious we can't see it

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From a gloomy article on the prospects of China sustaining its unparalleled multi-decadal 9% growth, China Will Need A Series Of Miracles To...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Our proper business is improvement.

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From The Bunker Hill Monument June 17, 1825 by Daniel Webster. Webster delivered this speech on the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of B...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Success? Serving others

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I think I have mentioned it in the past in the context of foreign affairs and international relations but I am struck by the reversal of the...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

If you want a culture of givers the most important thing is in fact to screen out takers

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I don't know how robust this fellow's research is but it comports with my experience. Nice Guys Finish First by Seth Stevenson. He...
Saturday, June 7, 2014

The importance of context in understanding the accuracy of an argument

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An excellent example of how important it is in an argument to both have context and understand the unstated trade-offs. Why has French emplo...
Friday, June 6, 2014

Who is reading enthusiastically - City Edition

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I am a sucker for lists and maps and therefore particularly prone to maps of lists. From The Most Well-Read Cities in the United States by ...
Thursday, June 5, 2014

Cargo Cult Arguments - Reparations edition

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It is quite interesting, from an argument perspective, to see how commentators respond to Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Atlantic article, The Case for R...

Never in the history of the world have there been so many civilized tenderhearted souls as have lived in this century. Never in the history of the world have so many people been killed.

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An interesting conversation going on over at Althouse, Sentimentality/tenderness and the gas chamber by Ann Althouse. Read the whole thing...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

The things that matter to literary people (character and story) are entirely secondary and are generally pasted on as an afterthought.

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An interesting insight. Dystopian science fiction is cheaper by Tyler Cowen. The original is The Remarkable Neal Stephenson Interview by D...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Square your shoulders, lift your pack

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A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman LX. Now hollow fires burn out to black by A.E. Housman Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights...