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Pixels Thin and Thick
On the day I got married, Jerry said to me after the ceremony, “Look in the mirror!” Puzzled, I pulled down the car mirror, looked, and said…
The Warm Liberalism of Erik Gustaf Geijer
Freedom in Sweden: Selected Works of Erik Gustaf Geijer. Björn Hasselgren, ed. Timbro, 2017. The name Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847) is little known outside of Sweden.…
Allegory and Political Economy: Communication and Cooperation
"We must look at the price system,” wrote Friedrich Hayek, “as . . . a mechanism for communicating information if we want to understand its real function.”…
Smith, Hume, and Burke as Policy Liberals and Polity Conservatives
To understand renovations being made to a building, it is good to understand the kind of order that the renovator hopes to establish. Edmund Burke writes to…
Corruption According to Adam Smith
That awful person! How can someone be so corrupt?! Be it Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, or someone else, Adam Smith pointed to an answer: “This self-deceit, this…
David Hume on Ancient Revolutions
The longest essay in the modern edition of David Hume’s Essays is “Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations,” first published in 1752. The essay aims to discomfort…
Grateful to Whom, or What?
My dear George Mason Economics colleague Donald Boudreaux looks back “with enormous gratitude” on his 61 years of life. The expression, he says, “isn’t about his parents.”…
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Benevolence, Beneficence, and Beneficialness
I love to analyze sentiments, sympathies, and virtues. In doing so, it’s useful to distinguish several “b” words. Benevolence on the part of Mary is a sentiment…
The Inherence of Human Dignity
The Inherence of Human Dignity, 2 vols. Angus J.L. Menuge and Barry W. Bussey, eds. London: Anthem Press, 2021. Justice is essential to a good and…
Sin and Covenant in Voegelin and Levinas
To sin is to make a wrong choice. It’s not a mistake. The enactor of a choice that is merely mistaken hasn’t chosen to make the mistake. …
The Voegelin-McLuhan Correspondence
Editorial Note This is the first part of a multipart series. It gives the 4 letters exchanged by Eric Voegelin and Marshall McLuhan in 1953. Other parts…
Nef on McLuhan’s Proposal
If 30-60 men can be found, gradually, and encouraged to talk to one another instead of to the robots they must pretend to talk to for a…
Proposal to Robert Hutchins 1947
In 1946 McLuhan’s friend, Cleanth Brooks (then a visiting professor at the University of Chicago), facilitated a meeting between him and Robert Hutchins — the UC chancellor…