Why did the Reaganites do this? They were in thrall to the idea that the highest, in fact the only, valid goal of economic policy is efficiency—defined narrowly as the maximum output for the lowest prices. And they believed that Big Business was inherently efficient.
~ Franklin Foer via The Atlantic
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
~ George Santayana
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Jonathan Haidt | How to Solve Our Generational Problems
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The liberal arts inarguably make this world a better place. More students should be intellectually curious about history, literature, and ethics. But technical training and acquiring credentials for the job market have a place as well. There’s no reason trade schools need to fight the liberal arts in a zero-sum game. We need to think through how we create more and better of both opportunities.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
~ Jonathan Swift
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James Anthony Patrick Carr – the Irish comedian – was born on September 15, 1972 – in Hounslow, England.
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