View of the Washington Post building at night, Washington, D.C. (Nicole S. Glass/Shutterstock.com).The Truth about Happiness
Edith Wharton, circa 1901 (alamy.com)A Return to Heroes: Tom Wolfe was the Stoic Writer America Needed
Author Tom Wolfe at the Hay literary festival in Hay on Wye, Herefordshire UK June 7, 1999 (Andrew Fox / Alamy Stock Photo).From Cavemen to Tom Wolfe
Author Tom Wolfe (Photo by David Corio/Redferns)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…
