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  • Plato: Fix Yourself First

    Plato: Fix Yourself First0

    • August 25, 2015

      A passage from The Republic, Book IV, 443d-e, which has been highly influential on the Western tradition. According to Plato, a man first “sets his own house in good order and rules himself” – harmonizing the various parts of his soul – before he can ensure justice in his actions toward others:   Save this

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  • Twin Cities School District Thinks Students Should be in Front of a Screen ALL OF THE TIME

    Twin Cities School District Thinks Students Should be in Front of a Screen ALL OF THE TIME0

    • August 25, 2015

    Public school districts today are increasingly identifying screen time with education. Across the country, many districts are spending a lot of money to provide each student with an iPad or laptop.  I live around one of them. The other day I received in the mail the 2015-16 calendar for the West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan school

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  • Inflation Has Consequences

    Inflation Has Consequences0

    • August 24, 2015

    From the Austrian School economist who studied under Ludwig von Mises. The quote, often misattributed to Henry Hazlitt, is found in Sennholz’s article, “Indexing: New Version of an Old Myth,” in Inflation Survival Letter, July 1, 1974. Save this article to favorites

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  • 11 Painfully Accurate Quotes from Hazlitt’s “Economics in One Lesson”

    11 Painfully Accurate Quotes from Hazlitt’s “Economics in One Lesson”0

    • August 24, 2015

    1. “We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.”   2. “All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt.”   3. “The ideas which

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  • Should More Americans Return to Gardening?

    Should More Americans Return to Gardening?0

    • August 24, 2015

    Thriftiness is a highly admired quality… but have you ever noticed how hard it is to be thrifty in a grocery store? Food prices seem to be continually high and rose again in July for the sixth month in a row. According to the USDA, a moderate-cost meal plan for a family of four is

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  • Stillness Lost

    Stillness Lost0

    • August 24, 2015

    The frequent texting, the flipping back and forth between apps on your tablet, the intermittent glancing at notifications of social media updates. What these actions both cause and represent is a lack of stillness – that inner state of restfulness needed to focus on an activity for a significant amount of time. Chances are that

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