Today two op ed writers, Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal and William Easterly in the Financial Times, express fundamental truths, the one about education and the other about health care, truths not shared or even recognized by our politicians, but that if they ever were could become powerful driving forces behind significant education [...]
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Truths about Healthcare and Education
October 13, 2009Barack Obama’s Tanner lecture
September 12, 2009Over 31 years ago, on July 1, 1978, Obert Clark Tanner gave what was to be the very first Tanner Lecture on Human Values at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. Now listed on the Tanner web site there are nearly 200 lectures, nearly all of which are available for download in Adobe Reader format. These lectures [...]
Is There a ‘Right’ to Health Care?
July 29, 2009Is there a right to health care? Theodore Dalrymple says no. He questions (but doesn’t answer) where such a “right” might come from. He does say there is no basis in history for such a right. And furthermore, when the right is recognized, as in Britain, the result, in respect to the quality of the [...]
