Archive for the ‘philosophy & religion’ Category
Saturday, April 10th, 2010
How free are you? Some food for thought by Robert Nozick, an excerpt from Anarchy, State, and Utopia, 290-292 (1974), winner of the National Book Foundation's National Book Award in 1975. Consider the following sequence of cases, which we shall call the Tale of the Slave, and imagine it is ...
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Sunday, March 14th, 2010
The Daily Camera asks: Boulder's Sacred Heart of Jesus school has decided that two schoolchildren cannot return to their private, Catholic school after this year because their parents are a lesbian couple. ... What do you think? My response, published in the Camera on March 14: The Sacred ...
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
Some excerpts from Onkar Ghate of the Ayn Rand Institute in US News and World Report: I'm an atheist, and I love Christmas. If you think that's a contradiction, think again. ... "The best aspect of Christmas," Ayn Rand once observed, is "that Christmas has been commercialized." The gift buying ...
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
If you're interested in defending free markets, I highly recommend listening to or watching Tom Palmer's talk about his new book, Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice at a Cato Institute book forum last week. Tyler Cowen's comments about it are also worthwhile.
The event and book sites linked above ...
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Would you like more students in Colorado to read Ayn Rand's novels? Then donate to the Ayn Rand Institute's Free Books to Teachers Program. Here's some information about the program in Colorado.
This coming Saturday (Nov. 7) Front Range Objectivism is hosting the program's annual fund-raising dinner in Arvada:
"Free Books to ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
Writes Ari Armstrong on why Libby Szabo lost his vote for Colorado's State Senate District 19: In races across the country, voters face terrible choices, with theocrats on one side, socialists on the other. Nearly a year ago, I sent a letter to various candidates asking them to endorse the ...
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
Last night Liz and I watched an episode of Darren Brown's Mind Control on the SciFi Channel. There were three remarkable segments in this show. In one of them he used his skill in detecting lies to navigate an obstacle course, and (if you believe him) was confident ...
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
John Stossel has an article about Michael Crichton's new novel, State of Fear, which is critical of whether human acitivities are causing global warming. Crichton also has a speech on the subject, Aliens Cause Global Warming, which he gave at Caltech. I have not read this one yet, ...
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Friday, December 3rd, 2004
On Wednesday I got into the lotus position in yoga class, and more importantly, I got out of it. So that's progress. My trip back East for Thanksgiving was nice. My brother plays in a slow-pitch softball league that does not use a mat for the strike ...
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Thursday, October 28th, 2004
Last week I attended a meeting of CU-Boulder Objectivists, where Jeff, who had attended many Campus Libertarians events (the glory days are gone...) that I'd organized, recommended to me the "TIA Daily," the daily e-mail from the The Intellectual Activist. We had been talking about meeting topics, and I ...
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