by Henry Oliner | Apr 30, 2012 | Global Warming
In The American, Lee Harris writes Science and the Republican Brain, 4/30/12. Excerpts: This is certainly tempting, but there is a serious problem with classifying all crackpots as anti-science. More than once in the history of science, the crackpot of one...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 29, 2012 | Economics, Education
Jeff Jacoby writes The College Money Pit for the Boston Globe, 4/29/12. Excerpt: Year in, year out, Washington bestows tuition aid on students and their families. Year in, year out, the cost of tuition surges, galloping well ahead of inflation. And year in, year out,...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Charles Wheelan write a worthy piece in the Wall Street Journal, 10 Things Your Commencement Speaker Won’t Tell You. My three favorite: Don’t make the world worse. I know that I’m supposed to tell you to aspire to great things. But I’m going to...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 28, 2012 | Philosophy, Politics
John Tomasi wrote Free Market Fairness in an attempt to find common ground between the classic liberals that created the basis of capitalism and the ‘high’ liberals (liberals as we commonly think of them today) that place a higher emphasis on social justice in the...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 27, 2012 | Philosophy, Politics
In Thinking, Fast and Slow author Daniel Kahneman wrote of a study conducted by psychologist Philip Tetlock at the University if Pennsylvania (my alma mater). Tetlock asked 284 people who made their living commenting or advising on political and economic trends and...
