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Hayek, for instance, “trained at home as a botanist to a quasi-professional level; he then graduated in law, received a doctorate in political science from the university, but . . . spent most of his ...

My father wasn’t noticed by anyone outside his family and his hometown. He did not have wealth or education. He was a humble, ...

How to buck the trend? I’ve charted seven intellectual habits of the best thinkers. True, these people exist in a different league from the rest of us. To use an analogy from computing ...

Teen would rather hang with her friends during vacation than travel three-plus hours to see her other parent with whom she ...

As Trump drifts closer to joining in Israel’s war with Iran after seeing some cool-looking bombing on Fox, a veteran foreign ...

Somewhere between the fourth marble torso and the 36th Dutch master, it hits: a creeping sense of cultural overload. The ...

This cycle is bound to repeat endlessly.' Harvey Wilsoncarr reviews the recent public downfall of female artists upon their 'career suicides.' ...

"It is up to us to change everything. But, against the doomers, I believe in this moment we may be uniquely poised to do so." ...

Downloads: San Bernardino of Siena and SantAntonino of Florence The Two Great Economic Thinkers of the Middle Ages_2.pdf The subtitle of this work was not idly chosen: “the two great economic thinkers ...