Comments on: Discussions http://crookedtimber.org/2005/12/06/discussions/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:14:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dearieme http://crookedtimber.org/2005/12/06/discussions/comment-page-1/#comment-127469 dearieme Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:19:25 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=4094#comment-127469 Well naturally that procrastination thing is tomorrow. Well naturally that procrastination thing is tomorrow.

]]> By: RS http://crookedtimber.org/2005/12/06/discussions/comment-page-1/#comment-127462 RS Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:28:14 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=4094#comment-127462 Hey, thanks so much for providing a link to a long article on procrastination... I yet again manage to avoid writing a small part of a small chapter of a modest dissertation! Good move, Crooked Timber! Hey, thanks so much for providing a link to a long article on procrastination… I yet again manage to avoid writing a small part of a small chapter of a modest dissertation! Good move, Crooked Timber!

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]]> By: Luis Villa http://crookedtimber.org/2005/12/06/discussions/comment-page-1/#comment-127242 Luis Villa Wed, 07 Dec 2005 00:59:21 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=4094#comment-127242 My sense is that the precise point is that they are outside of academia- the established academy does not really have much incentive to shake things up. [More on this later...] My sense is that the precise point is that they are outside of academia- the established academy does not really have much incentive to shake things up. [More on this later…]

]]> By: bob mcmanus http://crookedtimber.org/2005/12/06/discussions/comment-page-1/#comment-127238 bob mcmanus Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:51:59 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=4094#comment-127238 Ok, I subscribed on my bloglines list. Number 124. I had skimmed Buchanan's articles via Will Wilkinson earlier this week, and thought it just a little on the scary & irresponsible libertarian spectrum. But then, in preparation for a question I was going to ask, I looked up Buchanan's credentials, and he has a Nobel, so maybe I will read it again. I read Wilkinson regularly, and admire his work, to the degree I can understand it. I am certainly not qualified to refute it, however much I may intuitively be appalled by some of his and Cato's conclusions. I do believe libertarianism to be in some kind of crisis, for any path from our present circumstances to a more libertarian society seems less clear than it was ten years ago. In any case, my question was trivial, and involved "shaking up the academy" with blogs. Are the larger "think tanks" (Cato, Heritage, Rand)affiliated with universities? Are their members always affiliated? I had not before you mentioned it considered Cato Institute "part of the academic community", and I am curious as to the relationship. Ok, I subscribed on my bloglines list. Number 124.
I had skimmed Buchanan’s articles via Will Wilkinson earlier this week, and thought it just a little on the scary & irresponsible libertarian spectrum. But then, in preparation for a question I was going to ask, I looked up Buchanan’s credentials, and he has a Nobel, so maybe I will read it again.

I read Wilkinson regularly, and admire his work, to the degree I can understand it. I am certainly not qualified to refute it, however much I may intuitively be appalled by some of his and Cato’s conclusions. I do believe libertarianism to be in some kind of crisis, for any path from our present circumstances to a more libertarian society seems less clear than it was ten years ago.

In any case, my question was trivial, and involved “shaking up the academy” with blogs. Are the larger “think tanks” (Cato, Heritage, Rand)affiliated with universities? Are their members always affiliated? I had not before you mentioned it considered Cato Institute “part of the academic community”, and I am curious as to the relationship.

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