Films About Totalitarianism: A Series

 

Our Multi-Faceted Education Problem

 "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge."

- Daniel Boorstin

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"The culture wars are not really about right vs. left; they are about memory versus oblivion."

- Benjamin Myers

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"We need to get accustomed to the idea that there will be more Communist countries in the world and that this is not necessarily bad."

- Howard Zinn

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"The American cultural elite used to resemble (more or less) the rest of America. Today it disdains the rest of America. That's a revolution."

- David Gelernter

They Had Real Songs in Those Days

 

Desert Blues

I went to the dermatologist yesterday and got carved up. 

I'm to return in ten days so they can remove the stitches.

As the numbing wore off, I mentioned this to a friend who lives in New Mexico. He'd just gone through a similar experience.

Both of us grew up in the days when sunblock was unheard of and suntans were considered healthy.

Fortunately, I am now in the stage of life where a Panama hat, a white linen suit, and alligator shoes may be appropriately eccentric.

As if I'm not eccentric enough.

[Photo by Cphotos for Unsplash+]

Films about Totalitarianism: A Series

 

The Indispensable Man

 City Journal: Wilfred McClay on the importance of George Washington.

Practice! Practice!

The first book I wrote was published in 1976.

My most recent book, Pilate's Magician, was published in 2026.

It is my best book.

[I am deeply grateful for all of the positive reviews.]

"The Use of Knowledge in Society"

The peculiar character of the problem of a rational economic order is determined precisely by the fact that the knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently contradictory knowledge which all the separate individuals possess. The economic problem of society is thus not merely a problem of how to allocate “given” resources—if “given” is taken to mean given to a single mind which deliberately solves the problem set by these “data.” It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only these individuals know. Or, to put it briefly, it is a problem of the utilization of knowledge which is not given to anyone in its totality.

Read all of Friedrich A. Hayek's essay here.

Find Something Beautiful Today

 

[Photo by Matt Briney at Unsplash]

New World Symphony