The Unbearable Lightness of Being was released in 1988. It was a remarkable movie that inspired me to read Kundera. From the late 80s and early 90s, he was my favorite author – epitomizing questioning, intelligence, and masculine indulgence with a European flair. Obituaries from the New York Times and The Economist copied in full:Continue reading “Milan Kundera”
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Positive News: Violent Crime, Mental Health
Steven Pinker posted the >link< on Twitter – here is the text: ____________________________ Traditional news outlets might have you believing otherwise, but the developed world is getting safer The world is getting safer according to the World Bank’s latest homicide figures and crime survey data from England and Wales crunched by the UK’s Office for National StatisticsContinue reading “Positive News: Violent Crime, Mental Health”
Man vs State
The only certainties in life are death and taxes. I am sick of taxes. Taxes are theft – a standard refrain from Libertarians – that I hold as a truism precisely because they are extracted under penalty of law. Thus taxation is a coercive act. The refrain of good socialist-minded folks is that the richContinue reading “Man vs State”
Protective Arts 