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So, Robin Hood and John Galt walk into a bar…
John Agresto of the Wall Street Journal wrote a really provoking piece recently: “Robin Hoods Don’t Smash Shop Windows,” arguing that the left’s concern for the poor, as well as all that fairness and decency rhetoric, unravels rather quickly in practice, and that the ideological left seems to regularly produce a nihilistic fringe and mass ...
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How do you build a community of strangers?
Or, more accurately, “How do you build a community of strangers?” That’s right, you. I’m involved in a lot of different and potentially far reaching and ambitious projects — “The Committee To Address the Future”, various art projects, social projects, interests in developing philosophic, political and economic theories, a general love of exploration and parkour/free-running, making ...
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Thinking, not Doing?
I just watched a video of Masahiko Yendo, an experimental architect, talking about his work. My first question was “what is experimental architecture, and what good is it if it isn’t real?” He answers that first part pretty early on: “My take on experimental architecture is non-built, and is the pursuit of trying to figure out or ...