Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Charles Williams on Thomas Babington Macaulay

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            “Macaulay’s own controversial habits were finer; he fought the mind with the mind, and he never used insults instead of a...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Hayek's 1974 Nobel Prize Lecture on Economics: Or, why Obama is Tragically Wrong

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The Pretence of Knowledge The particular occasion of this lecture, combined with the chief practical problem which economists h...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

The Speech President Kennedy Never Gave

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November 22, 1963 I am honored to have this invitation to address the annual meeting of the Dallas Citizens Council, joined by the membe...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

"Hey, Whoa, Man:" A Eulogy for John Reist, plus one year

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It's been a year since we lost John Reist.  We are poorer for that loss.  But we are a whole year closer to reunion.  In his memory, I ...

The Problem with Philosophy is . . . the Philosophers

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          If, by “metaphysics,” we mean “the ultimate science of Being and knowing” (OED), then we might rightly conclude that it i...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

John 6, Chronology, and the Lord's Supper

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         One sometimes hears that in his gospel John is not concerned with time or with timing.   That is simply false.   I often h...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

McCain, McConnell, and Graham: Why Republicans Lose

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You might recall that soon after the Republicans nominated John McCain, and he nominated Sarah Palin, he held a four-point lead ove...