Alex Tabarrok on equal pay for equal work
Suppose that apples sell for more than oranges and Parliament in its wisdom decides that, at last, apples and oranges must be compared. Not by… Read More »Alex Tabarrok on equal pay for equal work
Values
Tyler Cowen on the experience, culture and politics of poverty
This is from his interview on the Coleman Hughes podcast. This section starts starts at 8:40. Coleman Hughes: What were the most surprising and informative… Read More »Tyler Cowen on the experience, culture and politics of poverty
Alasdair MacIntyre: Barbarians inside the walls
Here’s MacIntyre writing in 1989: It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and among the most misleading… Read More »Alasdair MacIntyre: Barbarians inside the walls
What if the best thing that ever happened to you…
Was not being rich, powerful or famous?
A politics of affection
Affection, in the sense that I mean it, is a broad kind of love: a gentler, more abiding, more generous way of feeling-toward, and of… Read More »A politics of affection
Edmund Burke on virtue, experience and political leadership
Words from the past for the present. … no name, no power, no function, no artificial institution whatsoever, can make the men, of whom any… Read More »Edmund Burke on virtue, experience and political leadership
Michael Oakeshott on political activity and continuity
Those societies which retain, in changing circumstances, a lively sense of their own identity and continuity (which are without that hatred of their own experience… Read More »Michael Oakeshott on political activity and continuity
Edmund Burke on Circumstances and Political Principles; or, Context is King
I flatter myself that I love a manly, moral, regulated liberty as well as any gentleman of that society [the English Revolutionary Society, which wrote… Read More »Edmund Burke on Circumstances and Political Principles; or, Context is King
Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K) on getting the right bus
Good or bad, “they’ll take you to places you’d never go alone”.
Love and Respect
Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of… Read More »Love and Respect