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Feb.14.2013
I am posting two of the papers I wrote under my Phillips Foundation Fellowship in 1997-1998, on the topic of Hong Kong. This is the first, titled "Hong Kong As a Model for a Free Society." The upshot:
The irony is this: That even five months after becoming a part of the largest...
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Feb.10.2013
The Sunday Chicago Tribune sported a full page article on gambling corruption in European soccer. Seems a few of the matches, between 600 to 800, were suspected targets for game-fixing. The article goes on to speculate a bit about whether corruption of the same sort exists in American sports....
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Feb.01.2013
I'm re-reading "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth" for a short story I'm working on, and a couple of things strike me:
1. As I'm reading it, I keep thinking that this translation just doesn't seem to be as good as the translation of "Human Action", which I remember as being...
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Jan.17.2013
Rand Paul is Ayn Rand's most prominent disciple. She studied philosophy and screenwriting in the USSR under communist influence. She was granted a visa to visit the United States at a time when such travel was generally restricted to the most loyal and well-connected communists. Have Neo-Randists...
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Jan.16.2013
This is something I wrote (gulp!) more than 20 years ago. I'm re-posting it here because I think it is instructive regarding the financial problems we are facing here in the US 21 years later. When I visited Vietnam in 1990, the country was suffering from sporadic bouts of...
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Dec.05.2012
One sentence ---
In this time of environmental upheaval,
of disasters both natural and man-made,
in this time of ongoing hunger,
disease, and continuing wars,
it is ludicrous,
ridiculous,
absurd,
and an insult to humanity,
to hold the nation and the entire world
hostage to...
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Nov.06.2012
November 6th, 2012: the day we vote on economy… the year of apocalyptic partisanship… the year of promises of new economy…
I usually don’t mess with economics. The last time I spoke on the topic was when I re-phrased the all-too-familiar “It’s economy, stupid!” meme into “It’s psychology, stupid...
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Oct.20.2012
Friday Night Lights, by Buzz Bissinger
image via gothamist.com
Having previously read After Friday Night Lights, I felt compelled by Bissinger’s years-after revisiting of Permian High School’s might-have-been superstar, Boobie Miles, and Odessa, Texas’, obsession with high school football, to...
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Jul.10.2012
I like "the glass is half-FULL" -news as much as the next guy, but I do wonder a bit at the cheerfulness of the AP writer who penned the lead in the story about France today, noting that the French government just had a successful bond issue "paying" its "investors" negative interest... in...
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May.16.2012
If you cannot get your daily bread, is joining a convent the answer? What about the call of god as a spiritual experience?
The recession seems to have hit the women hard in UK and reports say they are choosing to become nuns. Although the figures aren’t alarming, the reason for the choice...
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