by Carter Phipps | Mar 30, 2017 | General, Posts
Last week I featured Middlebury, intolerance, and Charles Murray. Article number 4 this week will continue that theme, this time with Wellesley and Laura Kipnis. But before we get to that, let’s pivot to a subject that is no less controversial or important—but more...
by Carter Phipps | Mar 27, 2017 | General, Posts
1. Free Speech and College Campuses The theme of this week is what happened at Middlebury College recently. It’s worth reflecting on for anyone who believes deeply in a free exchange of ideas on college campuses. I had a chance last year to spend a weekend in a small...
by Carter Phipps | Nov 29, 2014 | General, Posts
Perched on a narrow stretch of the Big Sur Pacific coastline, Esalen Institute is about as far away as you can get from the Washington DC and still be in the same country—geographically, but also politically, culturally, and institutionally. Yet, for a few days in the...
by Carter Phipps | Oct 22, 2014 | General, Posts
A Review of The Zero Marginal Cost Society by Jeremy Rifkin Declaring the end of capitalism has long been it’s own mini intellectual industry. And with the economic adversity brought on by the Great Recession of 2008, it’s an industry that has seen exponential growth....
by Carter Phipps | Feb 5, 2014 | General, Posts
There are times in life and history when economics takes a backseat to other ways of conceiving the human experience. Not today. In second decade of the new millennium, the headlines scream of markets and mayhem, of dramatic wealth and economic disparity, of debt and...
by Carter Phipps | Jan 4, 2014 | General, Posts
Happy New Year! Out with 2013, in with the new. Let’s all hope 2014 will be better in all kinds of ways. Maybe the economy will finally get some liftoff. Perhaps those in Washington will finally decide to stop throwing food at each other and solve some problems. I...
