A prequel and a trailer for the 2012 Doctor Who Christmas special are out. It looks like the Doctor has gone from Scrooge-curer to Scrooge-in-need-of-cure this time around:
Be Tied to Be Free
What is the well-dressed market anarchist wearing? Another well-dressed market anarchist, of course!
Commemorate the centenary of Gustave de Molinari’s death, and the decennial of the Molinari Institute’s birth, by wearing the founder of market anarchism around your neck.
Cordial and Sanguine, Part 48: Bleeding Stateless, Part 2
The BHL/C4SS symposium on left-libertarianism continues, with contributions by John Holbo, Jacob Levy, Danny Shapiro, Steven Horwitz, Gary Chartier, and David Gordon.
Caffeinated Resurrection, Part 2: After Action Report
So Aristotle, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Husserl faced off at the Gnu’s Room. I wore dark glasses and made the case for Aristoteleanism as a way to stop being stupid without becoming crazy. (Stupid = the unexamined life; crazy = believing stuff you can’t coherently live.) At the end the audience voted to keep Aristotle alive and to return the others to the grave. Mission accomplished.
Caffeinated Resurrection
It’s time for more Philosophy at the Gnu’s Room! (I forgot to announce our last one, “Philosophy & Technology,” Oct. 24.) Tonight’s session (Weds., Nov. 14, at 5:00 p.m.) is a panel of Dead Philosophers, at which various department members will be representing their favourite dead philosophers. I’ll be playing Aristotle. Come on by!
A Scandal in Bilbohemia
You know the Hobbit movie?
No, I mean the animated Hobbit movie.
No, not that one. This one:
Explanation here.
So Dale looks like Prague. And Bilbo marries the princess and they rule Prague together. Wacky!