Part 3 of 4: “All The King’s Horses and All The King’s Men…”

Posted 8th Mar '10 Posted In the examined life

Where? What? When? How? Next? Shedding light onto the most recent frequently asked questions from my closest friends to every other person…

In 2005 before I began law school we were required to finish the 800 page assigned reading, A Simple Justice, by a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist. It is the story of Brown v. Board of Education. Yes, 800 pages long! Some read it, some did not. Some did not want to admit they read it and enjoyed it! I couldn’t put it down—if history was written with this much diligence and passionate research I would have majored in History instead of English in college! I bring this up to share a quote by Charles Houston ... read more »

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Capitalism versus Open Society

Posted 1st Mar '10 Posted In the examined life

The following is a transcript of a lecture given by George Soros at Central European University on October 29, 2009.

Statements that deeply resonated with me are in bold if you don’t care to read through the entire thing. Mr.  Soros is an inspiration and simply brilliant.

Thanks, ~a.q.s.

Today I want to explore the conflict between capitalism and open society, market values and social values. I am going to approach the subject indirectly, by first introducing a phenomenon that has attracted my attention only recently, but has assumed such importance in my thinking that I could almost call it the fourth pillar of my conceptual framework. That phenomenon is the principal-agent ... read more »

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