Want to help send Charles Johnson under the banner of the Molinari Institute to preach Hayekian feminism to Marxian philosophers in the wilds of Oregon? Well, of course you do; it’s what you’ve been dreaming of all your life. Now you can.
Archive | October 22, 2010
Steal This Course!
Check out Stephan Kinsella’s upcoming course on intellectual property. See more info here and here.
New Institute Instituted
I’m pleased to announce that the Auburn Philosophy Department has created (or discovered, one of my colleagues argues) an Institute for Value and the Arts.
We’ll be kicking off the Institute’s sure-to-be-illustrious career with a two-day conference on philosophy of law at the end of next week.
Elementary, My Dear Bilbo
Very good news! After announcing only the other day that he was turning down the role of Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s upcoming Hobbit movie in order to return as Dr. Watson in Steven Moffat’s marvelous Sherlock series, Martin Freeman has apparently been cast as Bilbo after all – which strikes me as absolutely perfect casting. (Remember him also as Arthur Dent, like Bilbo a bewildered everyman thrown into cosmic adventure, in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.) This means he’ll be doing both Bilbo and Watson, I hope?
Addendum: Yup, he’s confirmed as doing both. And if you haven’t seen Sherlock, the first episode is playing on PBS’s Mystery! this weekend.