A 25-year-old's love affair
[From an old journal entry.] Noam Chomsky is my intellectual conscience. I think about him every day, multiple times a day. He helps...
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Aug 8, 20153 min read
Excerpts on happiness
It’s a cliché but it’s worth repeating: one cause of modern loneliness is the attitude of treating people as means to an end, namely...
Aug 6, 20152 min read
Reason vs. mainstream economics
Classical and neoclassical economics are silly. Maybe at times they stumble into a good idea or two, but the foundation is unreal. Let’s...
Apr 23, 20153 min read
Subversive common sense
[This is another book-excerpt, a negatively charged one this time.] Nietzsche’s self-appointed task of “revaluating values” isn’t...
Feb 15, 20152 min read
Christianity updated
One of the many ironies about contemporary Christians is that they tend to be supportive of capitalism. This isn’t surprising: from the...
Feb 3, 20152 min read
Anti-intellectual intellectuals
If intellectual curiosity means the desire to learn new things, encounter new ideas, explore and explain the world, then “intellectuals”...
Oct 21, 20144 min read
"Burn the Constitution!" (to quote Seth Ackerman)
Notes on a classic.— Charles Beard’s Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913) is still worth reading, a...
Sep 30, 20143 min read
Thoughts on Marxian common sense
[From this book.] An example of intellectuals’ need to make everything more complicated and difficult than it has to be is the unending...
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