From the World Economic Forum: Kim Kardashian is an unlikely champion of statistics, but a tweet from the reality TV star in January 2017 contained a startling figure that has…

…mandatory ideological boot camp. Is this paranoid? I don’t think so, precisely because the people organizing these events at Evergreen, and perhaps elsewhere, are not motivated by the philosophy that…

Economics: The View from 35,000 Feet Air travel offers an opportunity to catch up on one’s reading. In my case, this means Marion Fourcade’s “Economics: A View from Below”, which…

…could be taken much further. I would add that economic growth is window dressing for what used to be referred to much more aggressively as “man’s triumph over nature” or…

…and the Zen of capitalism. It is key that the secret to Buffett’s success is that he bought and held. He also let management manage. This philosophy of patience and…

…vaccine; “Can you patent the sun?” Salk was not called the “Father of Biophilosophy” without reason . . . a philosophy taking in epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical issues in the…

…themselves as educators and liberal democrats, followed in Rohrmoser’s footsteps. In 1972 Topitsch, a critical rationalist who was Professor of Philosophy in Graz, had stated that behind the slogans of…

…this job-stealing robot debate is really all about is an economics version of theodicy. “Why does evil exist if God, the creator, is omnipotent, omniscient and good?” This theological question…

Thinking about the coronavirus is bleak, so let’s do some political philosophy to cheer ourselves up. Libertarian philosopher Jason Brennan has a new post up claiming that our obligations to…

…Federalist Society, founded in 1982, bears slight resemblance to The Federalist Party of the late18th – early 19thcentury that, —“… appealed to business and to conservatives who favored banks, national…