Liberal education, by reputation, is learning for its own sake. For this discussion I shall take “illiberal” to be the opposite of liberal. Illiberal education is a means to an end. Perhaps the distinction can be better expressed by contrasting “education” with “training” than “liberal” with “illiberal.” I have chosen the latter approach based on…

Michael’s Nonsense: The Michigan “election” Keep the aspidistra flying!

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The other risk shift Much has been said of the many profound effects of the shift on the employment and finance markets,and most of that has been soundly ignored by the coalition of parties with effective controlover access to mass audiences in general. What has not been said enough is that there seem tobe signs…

My own personal bias concerning the question ofquality of life is that it can’t be objectively(e)valuated, let alone quantified. Nevertheless,I decided to write the present screed, which is tosay a screed titled Quality-of-life as vector-valued-quantity. My inner purpose in doing this is not in this casedevil’s advocacy, although I might decide to weave someof that…

Does a fox possess urban houdou? The question is not intended as a Zen koan.It refers to an ethical dilemma in which I presently find myself.Josie and I are trying to decide whether to work with or againstthe will of a fox who wishes to squat in our backyard.We’re suburbanites, so perhaps the question is…

The purpose of the present blog entry is tobeg the question of whether the concept ofrisk management has any ethical businessexisting. In a subsequent entry I hopeeither to have concluded that it does, oralternatively, to play Devil’s Advocate,using the putative legitimacy ofrisk managementas a justification for setting up certainother metaphorical (or perhaps institutional) straw menand…

I’ve decided to endorse Granholm I’m not a newspaper editor or anything,so I guess it’s sort of imperious of meto cast myself in the role of endorser,but it’s said by some that the blogosphere maybe as powerful a political force aspre-Internet types of media,so I guess I’m as qualified as anyone to endorse Jennifer Granholmfor…

Issue: Election fraud Election fraud is the act of interfering with the efforts of the system of election administrationto ensure accuracy of results. Republican policymakers, as usual, frame the issue as one of protecting trusted institutionsfrom untrustworthy individuals, constructing hypothetical scenarios and wielding them as cautionary tales about the dangers ofassuming that the magnitude of…

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