I am away at a medical conference, and so have reposted an older essay, which you will hopefully enjoy. Back soon.
This week’s news brought the remarkable story of Wesley Autrey, a 50 year-old Vietnam veteran who jumped in front of a subway train to save a man who had fallen onto the tracks while having […]
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Half-Pint Heroes
October 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments
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The Law of Rules
November 14th, 2006 · No Comments
This is a repost of an essay from 2004.
In contemporary political discourse, we often discuss the Rule of Law, especially in our postmodern culture where bad behavior is often justified (and excused) by situation, upbringing, or historical injustice. But no one ever talks about the Law of Rules.
Today in the office I reviewed one of […]
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The Children Whom Reason Scorns
December 5th, 2004 · 1 Comment
In the years following the Great War, a sense of doom and panic settled over Germany. Long concerned about a declining birth rate, the country faced the loss of 2 million of its fine young men in the war, the crushing burden of an economy devastated by war and the Great Depression, further compounded by […]
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