Curt Doolittle

Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

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    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-15 23:06:00 UTC

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    http://www.quora.com/Anarchism/Can-anarchy-be-feasibly-set-up/answer/Ben-Mordecai/comment/2269372?srid=u4Qv&share=1

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-15 11:05:00 UTC

  • LOVED THIS: THE LUXURY OF TREES How trees or lack of them correlates with urban

    LOVED THIS: THE LUXURY OF TREES

    How trees or lack of them correlates with urban poverty.

    Why? Trees are a commons. The poor don’t respect commons. We don’t invest in commons for the poor because they don’t respect them. We call this fact the twin problem of property rights and time preference. Some of us call it ‘discipline’ or ‘upbringing’ or ‘class’. But in the end, it’s the same thing: overbreeding children you can’t support is a short time preference, demonstration of lack of discipline and foresight, and a failure to respect the commons.

    http://persquaremile.com/2012/05/24/income-inequality-seen-from-space/

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-12 03:04:00 UTC

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    Hero treated like a villain

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-11 22:46:00 UTC

  • OUCH “I was once challenged as to why the economics department didn’t teach Marx

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    “I was once challenged as to why the economics department didn’t teach Marxist economics, I responded “we let the English department do that.”

    – Alex Tabarrok, GMU

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-07 22:14:00 UTC

  • THE WORLD IS GETTING BETTER (thanks Skye Stewart)

    http://www.businessinsider.com/charts-that-will-restore-your-faith-in-humanity-2013-5HOW THE WORLD IS GETTING BETTER

    (thanks Skye Stewart)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-26 11:46:00 UTC

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    http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/theactofkilling/

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-25 03:18:00 UTC

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    http://lewrockwell.com/sowell/sowell131.html

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-14 04:22:00 UTC

  • Why Did Stephen Hawking Cancel His 2013 Trip To Israel?

    Noam Chomsky, a radical leftist, a man filled with hatred, the only philosopher supporting left intellectuals, and perhaps one of the most immoral men in the world, convinced Hawking not to go.   

    This is neither a criticism of Hawking, nor support for israeli policy, but a statement about Chomsky’s career as a purveyor of destructive political ideology.

    It’s also proof that most intellectuals are terribly incompetent outside of their direct discipline.  And it’s further evidence that academia is insuated from and fails to understand basic economics, basic geopolitics, and have unfortunately adopted not the skeptical empiricism that science recommends, but instead, much of the ideological platform of the postmodernist movement, and it’s intentional misrepresentation of the nature of man.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Stephen-Hawking-cancel-his-2013-trip-to-Israel

  • Why Did Stephen Hawking Cancel His 2013 Trip To Israel?

    Noam Chomsky, a radical leftist, a man filled with hatred, the only philosopher supporting left intellectuals, and perhaps one of the most immoral men in the world, convinced Hawking not to go.   

    This is neither a criticism of Hawking, nor support for israeli policy, but a statement about Chomsky’s career as a purveyor of destructive political ideology.

    It’s also proof that most intellectuals are terribly incompetent outside of their direct discipline.  And it’s further evidence that academia is insuated from and fails to understand basic economics, basic geopolitics, and have unfortunately adopted not the skeptical empiricism that science recommends, but instead, much of the ideological platform of the postmodernist movement, and it’s intentional misrepresentation of the nature of man.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Stephen-Hawking-cancel-his-2013-trip-to-Israel