December 2010
9 posts
Solitude and Leadership: an article by William... →
If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts
Dec 29th
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The Sidney Awards - NYTimes.com →
Drum roll, please. The annual awards for the best magazine essays of 2010 go to …
Dec 25th
YouTube - Harvard Sailing Team - Boys Will Be... →
Dec 18th
The Shadow Scholar - The Chronicle Review - The... →
The 75-page paper on business ethics ultimately expanded into a 160-page graduate thesis, every word of which was written by me. I can’t remember the name of my client, but it’s her name on my work….
Dec 16th
Judicial Review and Obamacare →
Pistol Pete explains that if only the mandate is unconstitutional from a judicial view, Obamacare actually becomes worse. The point of the mandate is to keep people from avoiding insurance…
Dec 15th
The Changing Culture War - NYTimes.com →
Middle America retreats from marriage, and religion.
Dec 7th
“The abstractions of science are too readily assimilable to the abstractions of...”
– Wendell Berry, from Life Is a Miracle (via ayjay) I love this book. Political sentimentality is a masquerade, though. (via triadic)
Dec 7th
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The Character Project →
Dec 2nd
Chesteron on Thanksgiving →
Thanks to Gene Veith for providing these great quotes on gratitude from G. K. Chesteron “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by…
Dec 2nd