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New Material on the Way
What a year this has been. I’ve had a very heavy teaching load and more administrative duties at the university. I’ve also increased my output of scholarly writing and frequency of work-related travel. So this blog has fallen by the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Books
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Moscow Becomes French (Briefly)
Historical causation, the freewill/determinism dilemma, and the authority of scripture are just a few of the heavy topics we covered in the last set of readings. Now it’s time to press on. Here are the readings for the coming week: … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Liberal Arts
Tagged Epictetus, Great Books, John Calvin, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Hobbes, William James, William Shakespeare
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Mercantilism is Dumb
I usually try to make Great Books Project posts on Mondays, but the hurricane delayed last week’s post until Wednesday, and I am in catch-up mode. In the meantime, it was easy for me to knock out this econ post. … Continue reading
Napoleon Blows Things Up
This past week’s readings included many explosions and attempts to immanentize the eschaton. I expect more of the same this week. Let’s begin. Here are the readings for the coming week: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Book XI, Chapters … Continue reading
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Tagged Epictetus, Great Books, John Calvin, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Hobbes, William James, William Shakespeare
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Profit, Loss, and Entrepreneurship
Week 9 of the Mises Institute’s Home Study Course in Austrian Economics includes one audio lecture and three book chapters dealing with profit, loss, and entrepreneurship. “Profit, Loss, and Entrepreneurship” by Joseph Salerno: Salerno says that all action is entrepreneurship … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Economics
Tagged Gene Callahan, Joseph Salerno, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Thomas Taylor
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More Tributes to Mises
The introductory unit of George Reisman’s study program includes about 60 pages of reading from the appendices to the 4th edition of Ludwig von Mises’s Planning for Freedom. I covered the first part of the section, Murray Rothbard’s essay “The Essential … Continue reading
Scientist Works Way Back to God
Big news in the Great Books Project today: we are cracking open a new volume, something we haven’t done since beginning War and Peace. Here are the readings for the coming week: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Book X, Chapters … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred North Whitehead, Aristotle, Great Books, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Hobbes, William James, William Shakespeare
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My First Piece at the University Bookman
I have a new book review that is available online. It’s my first piece ever for the University Bookman, the review journal that Russell Kirk started and is now published by the Kirk Center in Michigan. The review covers Allen Mendenhall’s Of … Continue reading
Back to War with the Little Corporal
Last week we passed 22,500 pages of reading in the Great Books Project. We also have a new work to consider this week, something I know will be a breath of fresh air. Let’s get to it. Here are the … Continue reading
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