What do you think of Milton Friedman?
Doesn't playing the anthem and flying the flag politicize sports, rather than athletes who protest?
Can our economy grow indefinitely given the limits of the global ecosystem? And is there some way for progress to continue without endless growth?
On September 28, 1791, France became the first country to emancipate Jews fully in the modern world. What took so long? And why is Antisemitism so pervasive and persistent.
Can you tell me what is going on at the Rebel? Can I in all conscience support it?”
On September 21 of 1937, a small and whimsical children’s book by an apparently dry Oxford professor appeared. The Hobbit has its failings, to the point that the movies are actually better than the book, very much unlike the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings. But it already contained the germ of the powerful moral vision that was to blossom into Tolkien’s unforgettable and transformative trilogy.