* Birds offer some insight into the evolution of extended families, but much mystery remains.
* The NSA is both fascist and tyrannical, Mussolini and John Locke agree.
* We need Adam Smith's moral philosophy more than his economics. (Ignore the final rant about misguided liberals...)
* Philosophy of novels and philosophy in novels.
* The "Francis effect" and the fundamental quandary of modern religions (except Islam).
* Is the (over) documented life worth living?
* Why human beings need to fail.
* The shameless selling of attention deficit disorder.
About Adam Smith we could say that most of his followers are like christian fundamentalists, in that they cherry-pick the parts they like and ignore the parts they do not like.
ReplyDeleteYet this nasty habit is common to all walks if life including you and I.
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