David Schmidtz and My Dad on Asking the Right Questions

I recently posted how a passage from David Schmidtz’s Living Together: Inventing Moral Science reminded me of a line from a decades old essay written by Theodore Dalrymple. But that was far from the only time a passage in his book triggered a long dormant memory. In another case, David Schmidtz outlines an idea for […]
The Affirmative Action Game | AIER
The affirmative action game, in full swing for over forty years now, will continue despite the Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard. All that’s happened is a slight change to the rules. The real purpose of affirmative action is well known: to increase the number of minority students, primarily African American […]
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OECD tax plan targeting multinationals beset by clashes

The world’s biggest economies are this week attempting to rescue a landmark OECD tax deal after difficulties over implementation threatened to scupper the push to make multinationals pay more tax where they operate. Representatives of more than 130 countries have gathered in the OECD’s Paris headquarters for three days of talks on applying a key […]