As go the universities, so goes the culture… ============= By SOHRAB AHMARI New York At Yale University, you can be prevented from putting an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote on your T-shirt. At Tufts, you can be censured for quoting certain passages from the Quran. Welcome to the most authoritarian institution in America: the modern university—”a bizarre, parallel dimension,” as Greg Lukianoff, president of the... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
How Free Speech Died on Campus
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correctLearning to Love Volatility
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, EconomicsThis is a ‘must read’. Some very good concepts about Govt/Capitalism. Please take the time.. ======== Several years before the financial crisis descended on us, I put forward the concept of “black swans”: large events that are both unexpected and highly consequential. We never see black swans coming, but when they do arrive, they profoundly shape our world: Think of World War... Read more
Hope Over Experience
November 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ObamaI’m disappointed, be sure. Thank God for the WSJ’s optimism. (last paragraph). ========== President Obama won one of the narrower re-elections in modern times Tuesday, eking out a second term with a fraction of his 7.3% margin of 2008, in a polarized country with the opposition GOP retaining and still dominating the House. Given that second Presidential terms are rarely better than... Read more
SI Didn’t Leave the Democrats. They Left Me
November 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party PoliticsWhy can’t Republicans simply say: “Look at Detroit. They have elected only Democrats for the past 65 years; you mean to tell me that there is no correlation between where Detroit finds itself and the politics of its elected officials?????? =========== By SHELDON G. ADELSON When members of the Democratic Party booed the inclusion of God and Jerusalem in their party platform... Read more
Debasing the Currency – and more…
October 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, SocialismThis is a must read. We are repeating history… to our detriment. ========= Popular Delusions Memo to Central Banks: You’re debasing more than our currency By Dylan Grice, Societe Generale At its most fundamental level, economic activity is no more than an exchange between strangers. It depends, therefore, on a degree of trust between strangers. Since money is the agent of exchange, it is the... Read more
