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Thoughts of a College Graduate: Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Thoughts of a College Graduate. Wednesday, June 10, 2009. Guns, Germs, and Steel. I have just started the book Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond. In the book he is trying to come up with the explanation of why the societies that dominate the world today do so. A couple of quick comments -. Europe was consistently invaded - 'opened,' especially from the East. The Golden Horde left its mark on Europe, and prevented it from being a single contained entity. Late night rant brought to you by Benedryl.
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Thoughts of a College Graduate: The Fate of the Republican Party Lies in the West - Or Nowhere at All
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Thoughts of a College Graduate. Monday, November 3, 2008. The Fate of the Republican Party Lies in the West - Or Nowhere at All. Posted by Ryan Langrill. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Friendly and/or Thoughtful Bloggers. Colombia’s port-of-entry restrictions on textile imports. Theopoetics in a Moment. Hallucinating the End of History. Here at the End of All Things. Jack's Complete Lack of Surprise. The Fate of the Republican Party Lies in the West . View my complete profile. Arts and Letters Daily.
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Thoughts of a College Graduate: "Nothing Is Definite Yet" -- Squirtch
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Thoughts of a College Graduate. Thursday, December 18, 2008. Nothing Is Definite Yet" - Squirtch. My dad ran across this in the old Illinois Wesleyan newspaper; It's a story by my grandpa (his dad) that he wrote there. He attended Wesleyan after fighting in the Korean war, and I think he was a senior when he wrote this. I, personally, think this is awesome. Nothing is Definite Yet" - Squirtch. He was clean shaven. And had his shoes shined. . Neil: How many sides has a circle? Posted by Ryan Langrill.
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Thoughts of a College Graduate: Dollhouse
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Thoughts of a College Graduate. Thursday, June 25, 2009. Okay, I think I just have to say it: I'm not a big fan of the TV series Dollhouse. Joss Wheadon is usually great, as Dr. Horrible and Firefly can attest (and I think I could even watch and enjoy Buffy). On top of the lack of characters to care about, I don't really feel the need to know what happens. The show is unfolding rather nicely, and might have made a nice movie, but it's not the type of thing that I will devote much time thinking about ...
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Thoughts of a College Graduate: Thesis: Ayn Rand, Post-Modern Heroine part I
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Thoughts of a College Graduate. Friday, May 29, 2009. Thesis: Ayn Rand, Post-Modern Heroine part I. I recently received a copy of The Gonzaga Historian. Part I, Introduction. Ayn Rand is one of the most polarizing figures in the 20. Article as a moral relativist: “From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged. A voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: ‘To a gas chamber — go! 8217;” [1]. While Whittaker Chambers was a Quaker and had legitimate reasons to dislike the book, he clearly had not read ...
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Thoughts of a College Graduate: April 2009
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Thoughts of a College Graduate. Friday, April 24, 2009. I have a couple of things I want to write on, but I don't think I am going to flesh them out just yet. . 1) The identity of the 2000's. We seem to so easily identify things; movies, songs, from earlier decades and date them. The 70's are unmistakable, as are the 80's. The 90's a bit less so, but especially early on, it's hard not to mistake a 90's-ness. But of the 2000's? 3) Come this fall, I will be a Fellow at the Mercatus Center. Jack's Complete ...
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Thoughts of a College Graduate: May 2009
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Thoughts of a College Graduate. Friday, May 29, 2009. Thesis: Ayn Rand, Post-Modern Heroine part I. I recently received a copy of The Gonzaga Historian. Part I, Introduction. Ayn Rand is one of the most polarizing figures in the 20. Article as a moral relativist: “From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged. A voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: ‘To a gas chamber — go! 8217;” [1]. While Whittaker Chambers was a Quaker and had legitimate reasons to dislike the book, he clearly had not read ...
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Thoughts of a College Graduate: Thoughts on the correlation between being a Good Economist and a Good Person
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Thoughts of a College Graduate. Wednesday, June 17, 2009. Thoughts on the correlation between being a Good Economist and a Good Person. I've just started reading Deirdre McCloskey's book, sent to me in my intro packet to the Mercatus Center, How to Be Human*: *Though an Economist. Posted by Ryan Langrill. This comment has been removed by the author. June 18, 2009 at 9:57 AM. The problem is that while economics should be treated as a social science, it is commonly not treated as such, even by economists&#...
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Thoughts of a College Graduate: Conventional Wisdom
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Thoughts of a College Graduate. Thursday, October 23, 2008. The conventional wisdom is not the property of any political group. . On a great many modern social issues, as we shall see in the course of this essay, the consensus is exceedingly broad. . Nothing much divides those who are liberals by common political designation from those who are conservatives. . The test of what is acceptable is much the same for both. . These underlie his test of acceptability. . Is most familiar. . In both the Unit...
