Atlas Shrugged revival
(The first part of this post is cross-posted from another blog of mine). As well as re-reading Atlas Shrugged for the next session of my Reading Group, I’ve also assigned The Fountainhead to a returnee student whose English is fluent. I’ve been creating worksheets for him, and will be posting them online, possibly here. According [...]
Why the John Galt strategy won’t work
Image by sushiesque via Flickr The Mogambo Guru (TMG, as he phrase it) is a regular contributor to Bonner and Wigginson’s “The Daily Reckoning” and in a recent piece he explains why the John Galt strategy won’t work, and at the same time, why Michelle Malkin‘s strategy won’t work, either: Dr. Helen Smith, who is [...]
More on education
Image via Wikipedia I wrote earlier about whether universities have a future, a subject I’m obviously interested in as a I work in one. After writing that entry, I came across these quotes from the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises on the subject of education and schooling: It is often asserted that the poor man’s [...]
A little knowledge…
Cover via Amazon Meltdown author Thomas Woods Jr writes a long but informed and informative take-down of a Huffington Post article by Thom Hartmann on the economic crisis. Woods is one smart cookie, and he starts off with an honest admission: After eight years of watching conservatives blow trillions of dollars and comport themselves like [...]
