The DIM Hypothesis

I wanted to post about Dr. Leonard Peikoff’s latest book after my post on the 2008 financial crisis.  I thought it a perfect segue to the consequences of a lack of integration in dealing with the economy.  Politics and economics are a consequence of the ideas within a given culture.  Peikoff’s theory of DIM uses […]

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Whatever you heard about the financial crisis is false!  We’ve all heard the same tired reasons about why the real estate market and financial industry collapsed.  The most common meme is that the banking industry was deregulated so therefore  deregulation caused the crisis.  Former Chairman and CEO of BB&T John Allison has written a book […]

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I realized my last post was very negative.  In light of the Supreme Court’s unwillingness to uphold our freedom, I’m very concerned about the future of our country.  So rather than leave things on a negative footing, I have linked an article celebrating our nation’s success.  Via Gus Van Horn, this article written by Objectivist […]

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No one should be surprised by the Supreme Court decision upholding the dishonestly named Affordable Care Act.  Add this case to the long list of cases such as Dred Scott v Sanford and Plessy v Ferguson, as a negative turning point in American history.  The issue at hand was whether Congress had the authority, under the Commerce Clause […]

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I finally got the chance to watch the Atlas Shrugged movie.  Since I rented it through Netflix I was able to view the film multiple times.  I’ve done a review of the book a few years ago.  This was during the time the Tea Party movement was gaining momentum.  References to Atlas Shrugged and “Going […]

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The title says it all: SHAM-How The Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless.  That’s the name of the book I just finished reading.  Written by Steve Salerno, the acronym for SHAM is Self-Help and Actualization Movement.  Make no mistake we have all been affected by the pop psychology movement.  From Oprah Winfrey to Phil McGraw, there […]

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It’s a known fact that our public school system is in serious trouble.  But what about those students who are not typical or average students?  I just finished reading an interesting book about left-brainers.  Katherine Beals, a mother of 3 left-brainers wrote a book called Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World: Strategies for […]

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I must admit the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski was an afterthought for me.  I stumbled upon a 2004 article of college professor Alston Chase.  He wrote a book called Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist.  I immediately checked this out at my local library.  I think this is an important book because […]

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I just finished reading a fascinating book about the nature of supposed ‘out of character’ crimes.  Dr. Stanton E. Samenow is a forensic psychologist who wrote The Myth Of The ‘Out of Character’ Crime.  His whole approach to criminal behavior runs counter to reigning orthodoxy.  Samenow finds that in daily life criminals think differently than normal […]

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I just finished reading a disturbing autobiography.  Writer Walter Kirn discusses his traumatic educational experiences in Lost In The Meritocracy: The Undereducation Of An Overachiever.  Describing his life through the prism of education, Kirn tells a story of incompetency and profound anti-intellectualism that nearly destroyed him.  Kirn transfers to Princeton University where he is exposed […]

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