I have been teaching Plato to my children this summer for an hour each weekday. All of of have enjoyed it. They’re learning an immense amount, with zero homework or tests. I myself am learning an immense amount, with zero prep, and getting all kind of insights into current events— covid-19, the Woke Attack, Black […]
The story of the fish. North Korea and Andy McClennan, Grumpy E onomist Thread on Uhlig We don’t want better trade relations; we want your women! Plaot Book III on the philosophic nature.
Mr. Bostock was fired by Clayton County for embezzlement. He sued, saying the real reason was anti-homosexuality (complaint). The Northern District of Georgia dismissed saying that even if that were true it wouldn’t matter, with District Court Judge Orinda Evans following the recommendation of Magistrate Judge Walter Johnson (motion to dismiss). It went to appellate […]
The bad news is that people don’t really get a college education any more, just a good technical education or a few years reading ephemera and being brainwashed to feel superior, and thus we have the wokefolk phenomenon, cancelling, Twitter Culture, and so forth. The good news is that though these people are vicious, their […]
I know I’m too easily distracted and ought to be putting out the garbage cans, submitting op-eds, and looking at the draft my co-author just sent me, but tax law is just too much fun. And if the UCLA chief counsel’s office reads this, it will send shivers up their spine, sort of like when […]
This will be a page to collect links to the firing of Professor Harald Uhlig as Editor of the Journal of Political Economy. I will not try to be comprehensive. The firing was last Friday, and details are still fuzzy, and reaction is just now starting to appear. About 500 economists, loosely defined (it includes […]
1. Flynn: The Main Case. 2. Rule 48 Dismissal of Charges 3. Liveblogging “The Return of In re Flynn” 4. What I Wished Had Been Brought up en banc for In Re Flynn 5. Has Judge Sullivan Violated the Canons of Judicial Conduct? 6. Rasmusen motion for leave to file as amicus for In […]
This is a stub. How do Christians know things? 1. Reason. People contrast this with revelation, but I am thinking at a more personal level, so I include the Bible here. We use reason to understand that the Bible is trustworthy. The Bible is revelation, but it is not a revelation to me, but to […]
This post has various links to the 2020 Gordon Klein academic freedom story at UCLA. Klein’s UCLA webpage says: “I am reminded of Albert Einstein’s admonition, ‘Everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.’ Learning accounting or any quantitative discipline, without a concomitant emphasis on ethical behavior, is not a true education.” Klein had a very […]
I thought I’d take a look at which cities were having Floyd Brown riots. These are local affairs, and the voters get what they vote for. I’ve taken my list of riots from The Guardian, a leftwing English newspaper. I rely heavily on English newspapers, because whether they are liberal or not, they do not […]