“Majoring in Idiocy”
Something’s in the air: over at the Front Porch Republic, Jason Peters rails mightily against universities as “diploma retailers” turning young people into “idiots”. It’s well worth reading.
Daily Archive: March 5, 2010
Podcast: Oscar Night at the League
Here at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen, we’re doing our part to help kill off serious film criticism. I sat down with distinguished League alumnus Freddie deBoer and Sonny Bunch of America’s Future Foundation...
Hayworth FAIL
Br. Erik (as the League’s Arizonan) is probably in a better position to assess this, but why is J.D. Hayworth running an ad with John McCain painted in Avatar-war paint? 1. McCain is remembered...
The Weekly Standard pulls a Cully Stimson
Does the name Cully Stimson ring a bell? In 2007 Stimson, in his capacity as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, made a series of bizarre statements on NPR criticizing the law...
We Don’t Need No (overpriced) Education
Taking a breather from celebrity nudity and Rob Reiner’s thoughts on health care, the Huffington Post is currently on a tear about college tuition rates. Angry undergrads are protesting tuition hikes across California and...
Herodotus, “The Histories”, and the Greco-Persian Wars
An old joke holds that historians are gossips with footnotes. This often seems true of Herodotus, the “father of history”. Curious about everything anyone tells him, at times, he can be a bit credulous...
Wealth and moral character
Jonah Goldberg makes some very good points about human welfare and markets: I’m no unmitigated fan of Wal-Mart, but it can’t be denied that Wal-Mart—and stores like it—have improved the lives of a lot...
The Most Entertaining Piece of Legislation You Will Read This Year
Some enterprising New Mexican legislator is trying to push Bill Richardson out of the governor’s office and into the presidency of the Motion Picture Association. The resolution urging Richardson to take the MPA gig...
Markets in everything ctd.
I think Jason and I disagree less than his critique of my post would suggest. He is correct that my rather brief treatment of markets (and the purpose of markets) leaves a great deal...
