Last year the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation released their inaugural annual report on U.S. attitudes towards communism and socialism. The results were dispiriting. “We discovered a rampant amnesia about the crimes of communist regimes,” says Marion Smith, “and a growing inclination among younger Americans toward favorable views of communism and socialism.” Their latest survey
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Cal Newport is the author of two of the most influential non-fiction books of the past decade, So Good They Can’t Ignore You and Deep Work. Recently, he recommended the delightful 1910 book How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by the Englishman Arnold Bennett. While Newport’s work focuses on how to improve our
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‘Tis well said again; and it is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. – King Henry in William Shakespeare’s King Henry VIII As someone who has spent virtually his whole life in the labor of words, spoken and written, prose and poetry and political commentary,
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Typically, Hayek’s chapter titles leave nothing to the imagination. But as I encountered the “Who, Whom” title of chapter eight in The Road to Serfdom, I had to do a doubletake. Having the modern luxury of Google at my fingertips, I soon learned that Hayek’s title was actually a Bolshevist slogan made popular by Lenin
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While working at a local Catholic High School I couldn’t help observing how the whole enterprise too often focussed on achievement rather than accomplishment. There was a constant race for “good grades” which at worst functioned like votes in a popularity contest. “Sally didn’t get an ‘A’ so you don’t like her!” Parents were not
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As demonstrated by some of the responses to my blog post—“Why Professors Are Writing Crap That Nobody Reads”—today’s academics can be a sensitive bunch. Most professors seemed to agree with me that much—not all—of academic research today is poorly written, obscurantist, and of dubious merit. Other professors, however, were furious that someone would dare make that
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