Individualism Archive
Best Buy leading the world in workday flexibility
I am fascinated by what Best Buy has done:
[W]hen Hance participates in a morning teleconference with his co-workers or in-house clients, he sometimes is calling in via cell phone from his fishing boat on a ...
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Abraham Lincoln: We all declare for liberty...
May 3, 2008 · Category: Individualism, Politics
This quote from Abraham Lincoln does an excellent job of distilling the difference between "negative" and "positive" rights, and the implications of each:
We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word, we do ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 2 Comments »
Michael Strong: Give charter schools a chance
I've been talking some lately with Flow CEO Michael Strong, who (together with Whole Foods CEO John Mackey) is doing some excellent work with explaining free market principles to folks with liberal-ish ideals.
Today ...
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Buying a Spot on the Syllabus ... for Atlas Shrugged
(Cross-posted from the Atlasphere's Ayn Rand meta-blog.)
Inside Higher Ed Editor Scott Jaschik kindly sent a link to his new story "Buying a Spot on the Syllabus," which is indeed very interesting. He begins:
Some professors at ...
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Liberal vs Conservative? Christ! Oops.
If you struggle, as I do, with the nutty distinction between being considered "liberal" or "conservative" in modern America, you might share my enjoyment of this thoughtful post by Patrick Stephens.
In fact, Patrick's discussion here, ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 4 Comments »
Objectivism, Modern Politics, and the Non-initiation of Force
A friend made some claims in a friends-only post at LiveJournal, and a disagreement between us ensued. Since it was a friends-only post, I cannot really quote his post here in public.
The issues raised ...
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San Diego Mayor Reverses Position on Gay Marriage
Andrew Schwartz e-mailed me a link to this video, with the subject line "Integrity." I really couldn't agree more.
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Does Suffering Build Character?
This somewhat-throwaway comment, from a post by Virginia Postrel, caught my eye:
Contrary to what you may have heard, the only sort of character suffering builds is the ability to suffer -- a useful ability in ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 11 Comments »
Every Man As an End in Himself
Did you know that all 328 pages of Tara Smith's book Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist are available online through Google? [Correction: Apparently only part of it is available.]
I stumbled across the book ...
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Do AQAL and Spiral Dynamics Really Help with Political Analysis?
I enjoyed reading Matthew Dallman's brief critique of spiral dynamics (the first chunk of block-indented text on this page).
I'm relatively new to the theory of spiral dynamics, but I too am beginning to wonder whether ...
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