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
Vision
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
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
Worldview: Sarah Paine on Japanese culture and strategy in World War 2
Sarah Paine is a professor of History and Grand Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College. This excellent lecture sheds a lot of light on… Read More »Worldview: Sarah Paine on Japanese culture and strategy in World War 2
G. K. Chesterton on Hearsay Evidence
See also: GK Chesterton on HG Wells and the function of an open mindFools’ Money (2): Counter ArgumentChesterton’s Fence (at Farnham Street)
Lesslie Newbigin and Michael Polanyi on objectivity, personal knowledge, nihilism and tradition
Newbigin was a sharp but affectionate observer of Western culture, a highly educated insider with an extra layer of perspective that came from almost 40… Read More »Lesslie Newbigin and Michael Polanyi on objectivity, personal knowledge, nihilism and tradition
Cause and Effect (1): J. L. Mackie on INUS conditions
You can’t start a fire without a spark… and fuel… and… Asked what a cause is, we may be tempted to say that it is… Read More »Cause and Effect (1): J. L. Mackie on INUS conditions