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The Price of Love, The Value of a Sunset
I could never mix in the common murmur of that rising generation against monogamy, because no restriction on sex seemed so odd and unexpected as sex itself…Keeping to one woman is a small price for so...
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Virtue
St. Augustine defines virtue as ordo amoris, the ordinate condition of the affections in which every object is accorded that kind of degree of love which is appropriate to it. Aristotle says that the...
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And every winter change to spring…
I have shared this lovely excerpt from Tennyson before but it has been on my mind lately and thought maybe it should be on yours too. I think this may become an annual spring tradition here on...
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Law, Politics, and Economics
“Before I built a wall,” declares Frost, “I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out, and to whom I was like to give offense.” I feel the same way about the study of law, politics, and...
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Broke?
Is America Broke? I saw a graph recently that showed the trend in bankruptcy like this: I was amazed until I realized that the graph showed data since 2006. The U.S. was still in a housing bubble in...
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Shakespeare & The Civil Wars
Okay, so I said before that I would do a series of posts combining music and literature. I recently rediscovered the song “Poison and Wine” by the Civil Wars and realized that the lyrics put me very...
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Past in Present
There never can exist a Parliament… possessed of the right or the power of binding or controuling posterity to the ‘end of time.’ Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases...
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Failure of Imagination
In a recent post, I observed that: In standard economic theory, market failure—a failure of the market to achieve an optimal equilibrium outcome predicted by an abstract model—is the main justification...
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Conflict Resolution
The sub-theme of conflict resolution in my last post reminded me of this biblical passage: Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary...
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