This excerpt from Delanceyplace.com is from a biography of Deng Xiaoping (Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel). Mao’s radicalism had destroyed China and the country was facing catastrophe when he took over. This brings up my youthful struggles with the age old argument of man versus history. The argument I [...]
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The title of this piece relates to an article in the City Journal, a book review of The Victims’ Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind, a book that presupposes that our culture has become degraded, and questions why that is. The presumed answer is that the mainspring of [...] I have a layman’s curiosity of things scientific (when I’m not dwelling on things economic), thanks mostly to Mrs. Econophile who follows current science. When I think about the quantum world my head spins as I’m not able to reconcile things such as different dimensions and the fact that one thing can be in two [...] This is an interview with futurist-inventor Ray Kurzweil, a polymath who is a most interesting thinker. This appeared in the Montecito Journal, my very local paper. I think you will find his ideas provocative. — JH Ray Kurzweil: The Ultimate Thinking Machine By Jim Buckley of the Montecito Journal He is a [...] I could have written the title to this piece as he’s “gone,” or “passed away”, or “departed” or “left the planet,” instead of the harsh word “dead,” but that wouldn’t be very Hitchensonian. Christopher Hitchens was one of the most prominent atheists (be preferred the word “antitheist”) and he understood that this is all there is. [...] I have been meaning to reprint this lecture/opinion piece that the Wall Street Journal republished from Matt Ridely’s Hayek Prize lecture for the Manhattan Institute. I saw it again in Cafe Hayek this morning. So here is the entire piece. It strikes a note since I am now reading Isabel Paterson’s God of the Machine. [...] Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000 by Barry Cunliffe, Yale University Press [This excerpt is from Delanceyplace.com.] [B]efore Plato, Socrates and the Golden Age of Pericles in Athens, the center of both trade and innovative thought in the world was Miletos, situated on the Mediterranean coast of what is now Turkey. What emerged at [...] Like many people I have difficulty with thinking about 9-11 because when I do it seems fresh in my mind. And as we all know that is painful. I go back to a man whom I respect, William Edelen, a Christian minister, an intellectual, a thinker, and very definitely an iconoclast. He wrote the following piece right [...] I believe that people should be judged on their abilities alone. I admire people of all persuasions who do well at their chosen path. Mostly I am talking about people’s ability to do a job well. Be they in business, be they a bureaucrat, be they a lawyer, doctor, or architect, be they warriors, be [...] |
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