Monthly Archive: December 2010

I just had a multi-hour conversation with a colleague that revolved around the question of the responsibility a hypothetical businessman–let’s call him Phil K.–owes to his workers. My colleague’s argument is that when Mr....

It was a good movie. I’m not going to link to it; if you want to find it, you can. The problem I have with the movie is that it wasn’t as good as...

Some long, rambling thoughts on what it means to be a libertarian. At least, if you’re me.

I’m gearing up to teaching my “Law And Society” (POL 203 at Mercer County Community College — there are still seats left for those in the Trenton/Princeton vicinity) course for the Spring ’11. We...

As someone whose therapist friends have been battling, so far bloodlessly, with diagnosis-happy psychiatrists over clients being told they have lifelong disorders following brief depressive episodes, this Wired article strikes me as pretty important. (Via Zoë Pollock)

For some reason, I got thinking a little bit about antitrust law this afternoon, a subject on which I’m somewhat conflicted and about which my knowledge is definitely lacking.  What I’m wondering is whether...

She was as wildly amusing as some of the religious extremists she debated. When I encounter fervent atheists on this site, I oft-feel like I am dealing with her ghost.

Pastor Steve Anderson.

“We’ve all met people who invoke Ayn Rand to justify behaving like a sociopath in their personal relationships. I’d still recommend that any adolescent suffering from Catholic guilt read the passages about Hank and...

Over at WorldNetDaily they seem to have a problem with the moderate evangelical best selling book “The Shack” because it’s too…moderate.

They were quite an ecumenical and diverse coalition. Read more about them here.

There have been a surprising number of reactions across the bloggy-sphere to Chris Beam’s long New York Magazine piece on libertarianism. I say surprising because Beam’s piece wasn’t a particularly compelling critique of libertarian political...

The Bookshelf column in the Wall Street Journal yesterday (I know, ancient history in blogging time) featured an essay so typical you normally wouldn’t even notice it. Reviewing a new book entitled Fame, Toby...

My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. — Tom Waits I don’t keep up with such things, so if you’d told me Tom Waits wasn’t already in...