Lynne Kiesling Six straight weeks of either conference or houseguests … and this weekend involved both! I came home Friday from a very cool conference on ethics and changing energy markets to my visiting in-laws. It’s a nice autumnal weekend here in Chicago, so we are having fun; today will be carving the jack-o-lantern for …
Lynne Kiesling Over at Two Blowhards, Michael has a really nice and informative post on the Scottish Enlightenment, and its contrast with the French Enlightenment: My hunch about why we feel the post-Enlightenment pinch as acutely as we do is that the Enlightenment most of us know is the French Enlightenment. And those French, forever …
Lynne Kiesling I asked my freshman seminar to write an essay about energy use in the US in the past 50 years based on this EIA data table showing GDP in 2000 dollars, energy consumption in BTUs, population, and other stuff. Here’s what I (and they) learned from the experience. Total energy consumption in the …
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Lynne Kiesling Kevin Brancato is actually the one who has enhanced my productivity by posting on Google’s new tool for searching your hard disk. For people like me who are constantly on the knife’s edge of organization, this is the bee’s knees!
Lynne Kiesling We had a delightful, long-beloved houseguest over the weekend, and a dinner party Sunday with some of our closest friends to celebrate his visit. One of the wines we served was the Napa Wine Company 2002 Zinfandel. Its nose was big and velvety, its taste on the front of the tongue slightly spicy …
Lynne Kiesling Rand Simberg’s funny eulogy for Jacques Derrida is another one of those things that I wish I had written: But if, as he once suggested, we use postcultural structuralist theory to deconstruct hierarchy, then it could be said that the characteristic theme of this pseudo event is in reality the rubicon of neodialectic …
Lynne Kiesling Over at the Adam Smith Institute blog Eamonn Butler had a post on the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, a famous example that has been used first to illustrate and then to debunk the traditional argument in favor of centralized provision of so-called public goods: There was a time, a century ago, when the …
Lynne Kiesling As a follow-up to my recent post on FCC content regulation, I recommend this column by Adam Thierer on the same topic, and making similar arguments. Anyone who cares about the First Amendment and press freedom should find this chilling. Apparently, “Congress shall make no law” abridging press freedom now has several caveats. …
Lynne Kiesling The Electronic Frontier Foundation will represent journalists with content on servers seized by the FBI on behalf of a foreign government. From their press release: Earlier this month, the FBI made informal requests to both Rackspace and Indymedia to remove an Indymedia news story that included photos of undercover Swiss investigators posing as …
Lynne Kiesling Here’s a Wired magazine article from the October issue on the FCC and indecency rules. It does a nice job of highlighting the First Amendment problems with FCC regulations, and it pointed out something that I didn’t realize: their ability to regulate content over airwaves is a function of the purported scarcity of …
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