Interpretation is not the same as translation, although some will confuse the terms, by design or otherwise. I am in the midst of listening to Dan Carlin’s podcast, Hardcore History, Show 48 — Prophets of Doom. It is a recounting of the European period often called the Reformation, a time most characterized by a dramatic…
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Lifelong Learning
Nobody asked but … Yesterday I started a new term at OLLI at UK. My first class is a meta-class about how to build an OLLI course. Btw, OLLI stands for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. My preliminary idea is to do a discussion group centering on classical liberalism, but my mentor believes that using that…
The Race Against Time
Send him mail. “Food for Thought” is an original column appearing every other Tuesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Norman Imberman. Norman is a retired podiatrist who loves playing piano, writing music, lawn bowling, bridge, reading, classical music, going to movies, plays, concerts and traveling. He is not a member of any social network, nor does he…
When Did That Happen?
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The Overlooked Conflict Between Ideologies
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Cats and Dogs, Dysfunctions of a Collective, YALFE
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. Last week…
John Rawls and The Veil of Ignorance
Send him mail. “Food for Thought” is an original column appearing every other Tuesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Norman Imberman. Norman is a retired podiatrist who loves playing piano, writing music, lawn bowling, bridge, reading, classical music, going to movies, plays, concerts and traveling. He is not a member of any social network, nor does he…
The Minimum Wage is Just More Government Coercion
Those who advocate an increase in the minimum wage (particularly a drastic increase) are either economically illiterate or they secretly want to destroy the economy. Either way they are enemies of the free market and individual liberty. The minimum wage is a government-imposed price floor on the commodity known as unskilled labor. (Of course there…
The 10 Hottest New and Improved Businesses and Industries of a Win-Win World
Send him mail. “Win-Win World” is an original column appearing sporadically on Thursdays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Russell L. Roth. Russell is a 30-year marketing veteran and graduate of Jay Snelson’s “Science of Human Interaction” course (he calls it “Win/Win 101”). He has owned and operated businesses in advertising, real estate and internet marketing. He holds…
Re: Condemnation
Nobody asked but … I am not ready to condemn Donald Sterling myself. I have severe reservations about depriving a man of the use of his property without due process. Although I have no personal curiosity about the situation of why the taping of his remarks happened, I do have questions about the use of…