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Here you will find the musings of a philosopher devoted to egoism, reason, logic, individualism, liberty and laissez-faire capitalism.
Recent Posts
Joshua Hall on the “Dilemma of School Finance Reform”
I recently had the opportunity to interview the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship’s Fall 2009 guest speaker Joshua Hall about his views on school finance reform. Professor Hall explains why, despite an increase in spending on public educat...
9 ways to cut down on meeting time
Meetings take up a lot of the typical manager’s time. “The average number of meetings more than doubled in the second half of the 20th Century and time spent in them just keeps growing” (Management-Issues.com, 2007). Not only that, ...
Remembering the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Today, I celebrate my birthday. Well, not really. I should call it my re-birthday. You see, I grew up in East Berlin, and today twenty years have passed since the Fall of the Berlin Wall. I was 8 years old, living in Moscow on that day. Little did I ...
9 ways to deal with chronic pain
The American Chronic Pain Association reports that somewhere between 2 and 40 percent of adults suffer from chronic pain. According to a study by the National Institute of Health, “low back pain [is] the most common (27%), followed by severe he...
Capitalism and the poor
In her book Where We Stand: Class Matters, bell hooks claims to show how class intertwines with race and gender to exacerbate the economic and psychological plight of the poor. Yet, it’s riddled with worn-out clichés, myths, unsubstantiated cl...
CEE wins Templeton Freedom Award
The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, where I work, has received one of the 2009 Templeton Freedom Awards for Excellence in Promoting Liberty. The Templeton Freedom Awards are the largest international awards program for think tanks, and are de...

