Audio Lecture: Losing Property and Liberty by Dr. Thomas Fleming
Dr. Fleming talks about property and ownership. Do you really own it or can it be taken away?
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Good News From Big Belly Q in Chapel Hill
A hearty welcome back to UNC and our community! On August 12th we’re safely re-opening a whopping 4 days a week (Wednesday-Saturday) including biscuity brunch items on Saturday. We will be accepting online orders as well as walk-ins with limited seating available outside on the patio. Deliver options will be made available in the coming weeks as well. We look forward to welcoming the students and staff back with delicious smoked goodness in a safe and convenient environment. Wood-fired Neopolitan pizzas will begin in September on Friday nights with tons of specials and events leading up to it. First bonus! We’ll be giving away a t-shirt each week. Simply Follow us on IG, tag 2 bbq loving friends along with a comment of a favorite bbq item and location (e.g the dirty bird chicken biscuit @bigbelly_que ). We’ll choose our favor
Creatures from the Debris
The fact that an intolerant, “woke” middle class is emerging out of the debris of higher education in the West, rejecting our value-system, challenging our liberties, causing havoc and undermining our safety, should alert everyone.
More April Birthdays
Martyn Greene, Peter Frampton, Stephen Douglas, Roy Orbison, Anthony Trollope, Walter de la Mare
Trivializing Literature, Virtualizing Reality, Part One
According to librarians, reading is a good thing, and it hardly matters what you read. On that principle, bad books are shoved off on unsuspecting children with goodness knows what deleterious effects. I half expect to see, before I depart, comic versions of Sade’s Justine and Lawrence’s Lady Chatterly. In general most of us read many too many books. I don’t mean simply that we read junk–I have read thousands of mystery novels, without a single blush. I mean we read too many books about books rather than books that are themselves a kind of reality.
Wednesday’s Child: Natural Hypochondria
The weather’s changed, we are now into the rainy season, and the crowds in pharmacies are out of control. The British equivalent of the Italian drugstore is the local post office branch, because there, too, people socialize while waiting in the interminable queue, with the dispatch of a parcel a mere cover story not unlike the quest for advice regarding a cold sore. The gum-chewing, nose-pierced, orange-haired girl in the window, however, is nothing like the patrician figure of the pharmacist – always male, and portly enough to exude authority – a single word from whose august mouth can make...
The War on Property
A 29 minute lecture on disappearing property rights available to Charter and Gold subscribers.
From the Forum
Mr. Van Zant and Mr. Wilson have been talking about light fiction in The Forum. I posted this little bit, which they would probably miss.
