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The Nietzschean Ladder
Asking the question “compared to what?” helps in putting things into perspective. The year 2020 was bad. Yes, but compared to what? It looks bad only when compared to what one would have expected from the relatively peaceful and prosperous… Read More ›
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
Once in a while I like to review stuff that I have on this blog. Here are some excerpts to fill in the gap while I get around to writing new material. Here’s a bit from Konark and Beyond (January… Read More ›
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Happy Winter Solstice
I missed marking the Winter Solstice of 2020 which was at 10:03 UT yesterday, December 21st. The wiki notes that “the winter solstice is the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year, when the… Read More ›
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Hauled from the archives: Wikileaks is good for you
From Dec 2010, here’s the post “Wikileaks is good for you.” Go take a look. If Trump has any sense, he would pardon Assange, Snowden, and Manning while he has the authority and redeem himself a tiny bit. But I… Read More ›
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Lockdowns Kill Tens of Millions
The Wuhan ‘flu aka Covid-19 has killed a heap of people but the lockdowns imposed by governments have turned a bad situation into a catastrophe that will eventually kill more innocents than the two world wars combined did in the… Read More ›
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The Bases for a Free Society
“Precepts for living together are not going to be handed down from on high. Men must use their own intelligence in imposing order on chaos, intelligence not in scientific problem-solving but in the more difficult sense of finding and maintaining… Read More ›
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This Policy, Alone – Part 8
NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING economist Douglass North observed that “economic history is overwhelmingly a story of economies that failed to produce a set of economic rules of the game (with enforcement) that induce sustained economic growth.” A sound education system is the… Read More ›
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Amazon is Amazing
Nothing warms the cockles of this economist’s heart like seeing a market do its bit beautifully. As we say in the trade (pun intended), markets work and incentives matter. That sums up very neatly two of the fundamental insights of… Read More ›
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Ask me anything — the quotes edition
I love quotes. I have a very large collection of quotes, some of which I have even published in The Big Page of Quotations on this blog. It’s a work in progress and I update that page intermittently. Here I… Read More ›
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Walter E Williams, RIP.
Walter E. Williams insisted that the E in his name stood for excellent. He was excellent. He suffered no fools. He passed away today. About him, the wiki says: Walter Edward Williams (March 31, 1936 – December 2, 2020) was… Read More ›
