Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It (Part 3 of 7)
or morality to be objective, it has to be based on a standard of value derived not from feelings, but from facts.
Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It (Part 2 of 7)
Adapted from Chapter 1 of Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It by Craig Biddle. Whereas religion holds that God creates truth and moral law, subjectivism holds that people do; it is the view that truth and morality are not...FEMA vs Walmart: Why Governments are Not the Best Handlers of Emergencies
Whatever later investigation may turn up about the mistakes of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in New Orleans, it is unlikely to show the shrill charges of “racism” to be anything other than reckless political rhetoric. FEMA has bungled...Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It (Part 1 of 7)
If you want to live your life to the fullest, if you want to achieve the greatest happiness possible, this book is for you. It is about the essential means to that end: a proper code of values–a proper morality. Contrary to popular myth, morality does not come...Hurricanes and Global Warming: Interview with Dr. Roy Spencer
Dr. Roy Spencer is a principal research scientist for University of Alabama in Huntsville. In the past, he has served as Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where he directed research into the...The Role of Prices
The fallout from Hurricane Katrina has featured a lot of ignorance and demagoguery about prices. Let’s look at some of it. One undeniable fact is that the hurricane disaster changed scarcity conditions. There are fewer stores, fewer units of housing, less...Hurricanes and Global Warming: Interview with Dr. James J. O’Brien
Dr. James J. O’Brien is Director of the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies at Florida State University, where he is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Meteorology and Oceanography.
Smart “Problems”
During my first semester of teaching, many years ago, I was surprised to encounter the philosophy that the brightest students did not need much help from the teacher because “they can get it anyway” and that my efforts should be directed toward the slower...Hurricanes and Global Warming: Interview with Meteorologist Dr. William Gray
Meteorologist Dr. William Gray may be the world’s most famous hurricane expert. More than two decades ago, as professor of atmospheric science and head of the Tropical Meteorology Project at Colorado State University, he pioneered the science of hurricane forecasting.
