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Daily Archives: August 18, 2025
Comedy Break
Austan Goolsbee was born
on this day in 1969
Austan Goolsbee – the American economist and University of Chicago professor – was born on August 18, 1969 – in Waco, Texas.
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Jason Furman was born
on this day in 1970
Jason Furman – the American economist and Harvard University professor – was born on August 18, 1970 – in New York City.
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If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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Campus Life at the
Barnard College
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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It’s unlikely that in reading even the very best satiric works of another era we feel anything like the glee or the outrage experienced by a contemporary audience.
~ Philip Roth via The Atlantic
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