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The Not So Dismal Science

Check out: Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast.

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Into the Abyss

The beasts of modernism have mutated into the beasts of post-modernism - relativism into nihilism, amorality into immorality, irrationality into insanity, sexual deviancy into polymorphous perversity. And since then, generations of intelligent students under the guidance of their enlightened professors have looked into the abyss, have contemplated those beasts, and have said, "How interesting, how exciting."

- Gertrude Himmelfarb, On Looking into the Abyss (1994)

Unity

 

People are Novels

 A review of the life of George Robert "Bob" Pettit II.

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Danger, Will Robinson!

 

A London Must

There's a very appealing tour at Sir John Soane's Museum in London.

Worth a trip by itself. A remarkable place.

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Many of Us Have Worked with Vincent and Sylvia

Emotionally unstable people can do inspired work on their own, but if you're assembling people for a joint project, your ideal is not a Vincent van Gogh or a Sylvia Plath.

- John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister in The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It

George Knew

The object of power is power. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to safeguard the dictatorship.

- George Orwell in 1984

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