The Truth about Happiness
A Return to Heroes: Tom Wolfe was the Stoic Writer America Needed
From Cavemen to Tom Wolfe
It’s not difficult to come up with a theory of language. Mine is vaguely Augustinian (if we ignore the scholars’ endless battles over what St. Augustine meant by signs and reference), and it looks like this: All language starts in pain. The first speech of humankind is the newborn’s howl of outrage.
Friday Roundup, Nov. 30
Asking the hard questions at Econ Lib: Is FDA approval superfluous to the actual safety of drugs? The Sebelius decision throws a ticking time bomb of federalism (link no longer available) into the lap of Obamacare. The Claremont Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence challenges (link no longer available) Depression era milk regulations in Hettinga v. United States. The accused has been charged with the unspeakable crime of trying to sell milk to Costco below the prices of its competitors. For shame! Of course, Law and Liberty's Michael Greve provides the full treatment of cartel regulation and the jettisoning of the original nationalist logic of commerce that…